No.

The BBC has now adopted a policy of deliberately calling trans women ‘men’ – referring to women who have transitioned as who they no longer are. A person who doesn’t even legally exist anymore! This is being done purely for the purpose of trying to shame and humiliate trans people. Calling a woman a “biological male” or someone “who identifies as a woman” has got nothing to do with protecting women. It’s just base state-sponsored cruelty. A throwback tonthe 70s. How on Earth is that treating trans people with respect and dignity? It’s not. It is treating us with utter contempt. Please take 60 seconds to tell the BBC to stop, using the link in the tweet below.

The BBC has now abandoned the policy of referring to men who claim to be women as “women” – and that’s a good thing because of course a grownup news outlet should never have been calling men “women” in the first place, no matter what they called themselves. People can call themselves turnips, can-openers, fruit bats, planets, gods, messengers of god, and anything else that pops into their heads; we are not obliged to believe them.

Of course the news outlet’s policy of not calling men “women” is not done purely for the purpose of trying to shame and humiliate trans people. It’s done for the purpose of not lying. It’s done for the purpose of being a responsible adult news organization that doesn’t childishly and absurdly call grown men “women” because they try to look like women.