The BBC, formerly an adult broadcasting organization, is now solemnly telling us lies and calling people names for not telling lies.

The Conservative Party’s deputy chair for women has been accused of making transphobic remarks about one of her general election rivals.

MP Rachel Maclean shared a post on X, formerly Twitter, that described transgender woman Melissa Poulton as “a man who wears a wig and calls himself a ‘proud lesbian’.”

Transgender women are, of course, men by definition. They’re men who call themselves or claim to be or pretend to be – however you want to phrase it – women. That’s what the “trans” bit means. The BBC, also of course, knows this perfectly well.

In sharing the post, Mrs Maclean commented: “While the Greens don’t know what a woman is, my Worcestershire neighbours the people of Bromsgrove certainly do.”

Even the BBC does, but the BBC pretends not to.

Mrs Maclean’s comments were described by Miss Poulton as “childish games from a government party who’s going to be out office”.

It’s Maclean who is playing childish games? Not Poulton in the dress and the wig, not the BBC pretending a wig and a dress make a man a woman?

“I’m here for representation as a queer woman, as a woman with transgender experience,” Miss Poulton said, explaining she had been born a biological man before beginning her transitioning last year.

This is the BBC telling us this absurd drivel.

The online criticism of Miss Poulton centred on a video, during which she gave her support to the 50:50 Parliament campaign, an initiative that aims to increase female representation in the House of Commons.

Ah yes; well it would, wouldn’t it. Adding a man in a dress to the House of Commons does nothing to increase female representation there. Women, oddly enough, get rather irritable when people try to cheat us out of equal representation with these stupid tricks.

But since announcing her own candidacy for Bromsgrove last week, Miss Poulton said she had received a lot of abuse online, including from Mrs Maclean.

“Oh without a shadow of a doubt, it is a transphobic comment,” she said. “It’s dog whistling of the finest. It’s gaslighting. It does have an impact on people.”

Dude, you’re the one gaslighting. We can see the gaslight flickering up and down; we can see you telling us you’re a woman.

West Mercia Police said the original post on X had been reported, but the force was not treating it as a crime.

How refreshing.