Liberal party will allow women to tell the truth.

The Liberal Democrats have been forced to allow women’s rights campaigners who believe in biological sex to have equal footing with other groups after claims that they had been “vilified and censured” for their beliefs.

Except they’re not beliefs, they’re facts.

Facts are beliefs in the banal sense that people may believe them, but it’s misleading at best and dishonest plus manipulative at worst to call facts “beliefs.” It’s not a mere belief that jumping off a tall building will cause death. It’s not a mere belief that fire burns, that rain is wet, that Antarctica is chilly. Women’s rights campaigners don’t “believe in biological sex”; we know that biological sense is real and that trans identity is a nebulous hodgepodge of stupid ideas.

Sir Ed Davey’s party have agreed to “draw a line under this period of intolerance” and allow Liberal Voice for Women (LVW) — the gender critical section of the party — to be allowed to hold events, have exhibition stands and place adverts after a previous ban.

A previous ban on women who know that men are not women, and refuse to say that men are women. In a party that calls itself liberal. You couldn’t make it up.

Zoe Hollowood, the chair of the Liberal Voice for Women, said: “For too long gender critical members have been vilified and censured in the party for their ordinary belief in the immutability and importances of sex.”

Or rather their ordinary recognition of the immutability and importance of sex. If we approach the edge of a cliff we don’t believe it would be dangerous to keep going, we know it would.

The agreement was confirmed in a letter to LVW from Mike Dixon, the party’s chief executive, who wrote: “The Liberal Democrats recognise that Liberal Voice for Women is entitled not to be discriminated against in respect of the lawfully held protected beliefs”.

Except they’re not beliefs, they’re just ordinary humdrum reality. Pretending that men can be women relies on a belief; not doing so is just recognition of reality.

The wording matters, obviously. Trans ideology is all about lies and fiction and fantasies while rejection of trans ideology is just a matter of everyday facts that we all know, even if some of us pretend we don’t know.

A Liberal Democrat spokesman said: “We are proud to be a liberal party where our members have a range of views on all sorts of issues, but come together to discuss them in a friendly and constructive way. That’s what Lib Dem conference is all about.

Well, I gotta say, the Liberal Party shouldn’t be proud to have a range of views on whether or not men are women.