The UK’s largest arts centre is hosting a day of music workshops for kids as young as five led by the choir “Trans Voices”.
The Southbank Centre, which receives money from the taxpayer-funded Arts Council England, is due to host the event “Little Big Sing with Trans Voices” as part of the Imagine Children’s Festival next month.
The organisers said there was an “urgent need to effect change”, claiming they had witnessed a “growing anti-trans rhetoric specifically aimed at children”.
‘Trans non-binary’
Another event, aimed at six to nine-year-olds, boasted “a tour around the human body with trans non-binary emergency doctor Dr Ronx”.
Separate to the young children’s festival, the Centre is also due to host Andrew McMillan discussing his novel Pity, which featured a male character who “derives passion from his side hustle in sex work and his weekly drag gigs”.
The event, which is advertised for 16 years old and up, is scheduled for February and features a performance by drag act Fatt Butcher.
Vindicated
Last year, a former employee of Arts Council England was vindicated after being intimidated and humiliated at work for upholding the reality of biological sex.
In a unanimous judgment, Leeds Employment Tribunal declared that Denise Fhamy’s beliefs – that biological sex is fixed and that “‘trans women’ are men who think they are women” – were protected under the Equality Act 2010.
The Tribunal ruled that emails and comments made against her “had the purpose and effect of violating the claimant’s dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment”.
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