CBeebies, the BBC channel for children under six, has celebrated US ‘drag queen prostitutes’ as “inspirational mums”.
In a webpage devised to mark International Women’s Day, CBeebies hailed Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera as ‘transgender pioneers and mothers’ to STAR House in New York.
The broadcaster claimed STAR House provided “a sense of family to many LGBTQ+ kids”, but an exposé by online magazine Spiked! found it was a chaotic arrangement in a squalid apartment, with links to the mafia sex trade.
Biological reality
In her article for the magazine, Jo Bartosch observed: “Rivera and Johnson were not only childless men, and thus not ‘mothers’ in any sense.
“They were also the kind of men that no loving parent would leave a child with. They were prostitutes known to be involved with the New York mob.”
She added: “These inconvenient facts have done nothing to slow the BBC’s hagiographers, busily reshaping history to fit their ideological worldview.”
She accused the broadcaster of “directing trans propaganda at children”, and attempting “to undermine a truth we all know: that a mother is simply a woman with children”.
‘Political propaganda’
BBC One drama Waterloo Road was criticised recently for weaponising dementia in a transgender storyline.
In an episode aired last month, a dying grandmother becomes confused when her teenage grandson describes himself as “Lois, your granddaughter”. The grandmother says she doesn’t have a granddaughter, responding: “It is you Jake, isn’t it?”
‘Lois’, played by a man known as Miya Ocego, questions if his grandmother was “pretending” to approve of his gender-confusion and the dementia “brought out her true self”. The teenager is advised by his friends not to visit her again.
Maya Forstater, CEO and Co-Founder of Sex Matters, said the “use of the symptoms of this devastating disease as political propaganda for the discredited practice of transitioning children” marked a new low for the BBC.
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