Dame Jenni Murray, who is scarcely a hyena of the fascist Right, has received an impartiality warning from the BBC for expressing her legitimate opinion that a man whose sex is changed to a woman isnt really a woman at all.

It is abominable that the BBC should reprimand her for this. Dame Jenni has been a woman all her life; she knows very well what being a woman is; in a free country, she is entitled to voice her view. It is up to the rest of us whether we agree with her. As our public service broadcaster, the BBCs duty is to encourage discussion on such subjects, not close it down.

We already live in a society in which devout Christians are regarded as engaging in hate speech if they voice their scepticism about applying the institution of marriage to same-sex couples; where anyone who denies man-made climate change is regarded as mentally defective; and, of course, where one is branded...

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