Can the BBC do anything right? Just days before it messed up spectacularly by failing to cut away from Bob Vylan’s offensive performance at Glastonbury, it released a podcast in which activist Munroe Bergdorf told listeners ‘how transitioning allowed her to discover love’. The BBC, the former broadcaster that’s now a HR department with some channels attached, is increasingly ladling up such tatty ‘content’. But this podcast episode – part of the ‘How To Be In Love’ series – marks a new, desperate low.

‘We are constantly told that trans people are an abomination,’ says Bergdorf. Really?

Hosted by the amiable and intelligent Rylan Clark, whose wit and charm are, frankly, being frittered away on such rubbish, Bergdorf – who was born a man but has now ‘transitioned’ – appears to claim to be a lesbian, on the basis of having fallen in love with another man who also claims to be a woman. Yes, you read that right.

‘I never thought I would fall in love with another woman,’ Bergdorf tells Rylan, who listens with an admirably straight face that is a picture to behold. Why are we paying for this?

Bergdorf goes on. And on. And........

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