'First Day', the drama about a transgender 12yo, shouldn’t be on the BBC children’s channel. It’s harmful, shameless propaganda

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[–]jet199 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

10 years ago I was the most pro BBC person you could find.

The fact is its a non democratic entity which is far too easily captured by the middle classes (British definition) and their pet political projects while being able to impose a tax and prison sentences onto people (mostly it's poor women at the sharp end of this).

Either it needs to be defunded or it needs to have some sort of democratic leadership/editorial built into it. It has shown it can't be allowed to hold the powers it has on trust and goodwill alone.

[–]OrangeFirefly 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Will they show the surgeries Hannah will go through later? The fact that when Hannah grows up, Hannah will have a 'neovagina' that will be partly fashioned from Hannah's arm or colon and will need to be dilated everyday?

Will they show the long term health issues that will arise from a lifetime of oestrogen?

[–]luckystar 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't forget never being able to have biological children, sexual desire/pleasure, or orgasm. We learned that fun tidbit from Jazz Jennings

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I read that the BBC had around 400 transgender employees and that it requires pronoun badges.

This was from a respectable source that I will try to find and post, but if anyone works at the BBC or knows someone who does, can you confirm?

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I wouldn't be entirely surprised:

It employs over 22,000 staff in total, more than 16,000 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.

It's a shame the remaining 21,600 people have to genuflect to the vast minority. Do they have badges explaining what hand they write with as well?

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many people hate to be forced to do something completely ridiculous, like enforced pronoun usage, so I'll bet that there are a lot of BBC employees who are starting to turn against gender ideology in their own minds.

That's why it is just so important that JK Rowling spoke out and gave other people the cover to do so as well.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, the press reports a couple of years ago said the BBC had surveyed its staff & found that two percent ID as trans. And the proportion of staff who "identify as" members of the broader "LGBTQ+" overall was even higher - six times the rate in the rest of the UK population

[–]tuesday 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I haven't seen anyone mention this point yet.

Trans lobbyists have realized that the show 'I Am Jazz' has opened a lot of eyes and peaked too many people, the opposite of what they wanted. A reality based television show centered around a real person can't advance the trans agenda because for the average viewer, watching a real trans child deal with the obvious reinforcement of gender stereotypes by their parents and going into so much detail with all the horrific problems with a medical transition is just too much for the average person to accept.

So this time around, the trans lobby have decided to push a fictional story instead, one that is supposedly dealing with "real" issues but yet, by using actors and a script, they now get to push whatever version of their fantasy that they want.

This is a tactic, it's deliberate. We probably won't be seeing another show where they show the real problems of real transpeople.

[–]SanityIsGC 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So this time around, the trans lobby have decided to push a fictional story instead, one that is supposedly dealing with "real" issues but yet, by using actors and a script, they now get to push whatever version of their fantasy that they want.

Bang on. This is an important point