Ok so let’s read SEEN in Journalism’s letter to the BBC.

We call on the BBC to embrace accuracy in its coverage of ‘transgender’ issues and adopt an editorial policy of accurately describing sex.

The BBC has a unique responsibility to deliver accurate, impartial, and transparent reporting to its diverse audience. The current default, of using preferred pronouns and the words ‘man’ and ‘woman’ according to a person’s ‘gender identity’ is at best highly misleading and at worst a betrayal of the BBC’s public service remit.

And it does have that public service remit, not least because people are required to pay for it via the license fee.

Biological sex is an objective reality defined by gamete size, determined by chromosomes and resulting in two distinct body types with specific physical traits relevant to reproductive anatomy. Sex cannot be changed. This is indisputably true: hormones and surgery can lead only to a superficial resemblance to the opposite sex.

Gender identity, while deeply personal, is subjective and distinct from sex. The words man, woman, boy, girl – and their equivalent in other languages – evolved to describe people with these two distinct body types. They did not evolve to describe people with ‘gender identities’ and it is misleading to use them in that way.

Because “woman” and “man” don’t describe people’s personalities, thoughts, dreams, fantasies, projects, hopes, fears, loves, hates, habits, occupations, hobbies, favorite foods, taste in wine, clothes, haircuts, art, literature…

There is no evidence to support the claim that a person can be the opposite sex or no sex at all. This is an ideological position that the BBC should report on, but not adopt.

It’s an ideological position and it’s bullshit.

It could after all be an ideological position and still map onto the truth. It could, but it doesn’t. It’s an ideological position rooted in an absurd and grotesque lie.

Sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010, which covers every circumstance in which discrimination might arise. The Supreme Court judgment (For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers 2025) made it clear that ‘sex’ means biological sex at birth. It affirms that sex-based rights cannot be overridden by self-identification of gender, by the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, or by possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate.

Trans-identifying men are no type of women, and trans-identifying women are no type of men.

It is time for the BBC to acknowledge that equality law in the UK reflects sex-based reality, and to default to biological descriptors. This will ensure its audience is fully informed, across coverage of contentious issues such as access to women’s prisons, domestic violence shelters, or competitive sports, and public and private services.

The ideological viewpoint that people can change whether they are male or female has been adopted across all output by the BBC – rather than the legally sustained belief in the materiality of sex.

The BBC has a duty to ensure that it is not captured by any ideological viewpoint, including gender identity ideology. The belief and understanding that biological sex is binary and unchangeable, and that it matters, are not only legally protected, they are based on fundamental truths. Yet the BBC persists in telling its audience the opposite. This is a dereliction of the BBC’s Charter responsibilities.

So CUT IT OUT, BBC! Stop it. Just stop it.