Listen again to this extraordinary BBC Woman's Hour exchange. The BBC’s challenge to a vulnerable guest on her choice of words (to describe reality) is totally unwarranted. Bethany Hutchison, one of the Darlington nurses, speaks to Nuala McGovern

BBC Editorial Guidelines say we shouldn’t be able to detect presenter bias or personal beliefs. It has itself chosen to affirm self-identification - a politically activist stance at odds with accuracy and impartiality. Now it is trying to impose it on vulnerable contributors.

Almost beyond belief that @BBCWomansHour thought fit to grill a woman, who’s at risk of harassment and voyeurism, with a list of conditions under which she might accept a man in the same room while she’s undressed.

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala If @BBCNuala isn’t sure what a woman is, why is she considered an appropriate host for @BBCWomansHour?

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala Disgraceful. It's because he's a fucking MAN @BBCNuala. I know it, Bethany knows it, YOU know it, and he knows it. EVERYONE knows it. #HesAMan #JustSayMen

unsolicited media training: when pressed to absurd lengths like that you’re allowed to answer in any way you want. so why not turn the Q back around and ask “at BBC are you required to change in front of men? then why is it so important to you that women at our facility have no privacy and dignity?” spitballing. you get the idea. always be prepared to pivot—no Q has to be answered as if in a courtroom.

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala I'd transcribe that one posterity. It was extraordinary, and not in a way I'd want on my CV as someone with a remit to give women a fair platform.

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala The sound of a woman throwing another woman under a bus

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala A man, is a man. A male is a male. He can never be female. It doesn't matter what clothes he wears. It doesn't matter what body parts he has whether natural or constructed. Male. Man. HE!

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala Appalling, shocking, totalitarian coercion.

@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala Bethany Hutchison was outstanding. The hostile questioning was appalling and many would have been unnerved by it. I didn’t know who the presenter was but she tried to discredit Bethany with guilt by association with a Christian organization.