BBC pushes drag queen ‘mums’ on children

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Why is the BBC still pushing transgenderism onto young children? That’s what many are asking after it emerged that the UK’s national broadcaster has celebrated two transgender American drag queens as “inspirational mums” on its CBeebies website aimed at children under six.

In a feature for International Women’s Day that first appeared in 2020, preschoolers and infants are told that Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were “revolutionary LGBTQ+ rights activists” who, through the STAR House shelter they founded, “provided a home, food, clothing and a sense of family to many LGBTQ+ kids made homeless by their biological families”.

Johnson and Rivera were not mothers, of course, because they were not women. In fact, they were cross-dressing male prostitutes involved with the New York mob, and STAR House was a squalid tenement linked with prostitution and the mob’s pornography operation.

They are the opposite of the kind of people the BBC, with its compulsory funding from TV viewers, should be teaching small children about.

Lucy Marsh from the Family Education Trust told the Daily Telegraph: “CBeebies should not be promoting drag queens as they are highly sexualised caricatures of women and completely inappropriate for children, especially for under six year-olds who might believe that these men are really women.

“This is also deeply insulting to actual mothers, many of whom could have been featured as role models for young children.”

But it seems that in the eyes of BBC children’s editors, the fashionable LGBT agenda justifies pushing this kind of twisted ideological nonsense on trusting young minds.

The BBC has been pushing the trans agenda for years. In December, it included a transgender Colombian scientist in its annual 100 Women list.

And in 2016, its CBBC channel for children broadcasted a show called ‘Just a Girl’, about a schoolboy who takes puberty blockers to try to change gender.

Children need to be protected from content like this, not exposed to it, least of all by trusted sources.

At C4M, we’re disappointed to find the BBC continuing to promote harmful ideologies in this way. Our public service broadcaster should be celebrating real mothers and real marriage – proven to be the best foundation for families that give children the best start in life.

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