When the left is mired up to its nostrils in fantasies sometimes even Boris Johnson gets it right.

Boris Johnson has said he does not “think that biological males should be competing in female sporting events”, amid the fallout from his decision not to ban conversion practices for people questioning their gender.

Well, as we have seen, that all depends on what you’re calling “conversion.” I don’t consider it “conversion” to tell a man he’s not a woman.

Johnson also said that women should have spaces in hospitals, prisons and changing rooms which were “dedicated to women”.

Imagine that. Just imagine thinking a woman in prison shouldn’t have to share a cell with a rapist.

He also insisted it was right to exclude people who were questioning their gender from a long-promised ban on so-called conversion “therapy”.

Or, to translate, he also insisted it was right to encourage people who were questioning their gender to think carefully and talk to a therapist before making irreversible changes to their bodies.

It doesn’t sound so malevolent put that way, does it. Why not talk to a therapist first? Why not think seriously about the possibility of regret down the road?

Johnson said: “I suppose I’d just make a few points: I don’t think that it’s reasonable for kids to be deemed so-called Gillick competent to take decisions about their gender or irreversible treatments that they may have. I think there should be parental involvement at the very least. That’s the first thing.

“Second thing, I don’t think that biological males should be competing in female sporting events. And maybe that’s a controversial thing, but it just seems to me to be sensible.”

The prime minister added: “We will have a ban on gay conversion therapy, which to me is utterly abhorrent. But there are complexities and sensitivities when you move from the area of sexuality to the question of gender. There, I’m afraid, there are things that I think still need to be worked out.”

In other words gender and sexuality are not the same thing, so it’s not just self-evident that they should be bundled together.

It’s bizarre to see BJ talking more sense than the other team, but there it is.