gay daleks?!

reesei showed me this article on the BBC saying that the new Dr. Who is going to be missing the Daleks, and I just can't believe it. I mean, sure, I can believe that a writer's estate might want editorial control over that writers creations. I simply refuse to believe that their concerns were founded, though:

Mr Hancock accused the BBC of lying about the reasons a deal had not been made.

He said the BBC had tried to commission a cartoon series about gay Daleks for BBC Three.

Gay Daleks?! I thought the whole point of Daleks was that they'd replaced their frail fleshy underpinnings with reliable machinery. Gender & sexuality are both irrelevant, aren't they? I just can't believe the BBC would do that.