The BBC's obsession with drag queens and transvestites plumbs new depths. Jo Bartosch at Spiked:
CBeebies, the BBC’s platform for pre-school children, has run a bizarre puff piece lionising two transvestite prostitutes.
Ahead of this year’s International Women’s Day, CBeebies’ staff saw fit to include the late Ray ‘Sylvia’ Rivera and Marsha P Johnson in a list of ‘Inspirational Mums’ – alongside figures like poet Maya Angelou and Irena Sendler, the Polish heroine who rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Today, no BBC list of high-achieving women would be complete without some drag queens, and so Johnson and Rivera are lauded for supposedly providing ‘a home, food, clothing and a sense of family to many LGBTQ+ kids made homeless by their biological families’.
But 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….
When alive, Johnson and Rivera were clear that they understood themselves to be gay men who cross-dressed and sold sex. Neither had easy lives, but this does not excuse what they allowed to happen to the vulnerable young people who found themselves at STAR House. The idea that these men were maternal figures can only make sense to the sort of fool who thinks Hamas only gets a bad rep because of ‘Islamophobia’ – in other words, your average BBC staffer….
The BBC long ago abandoned the Reithian values of educating, informing and entertaining. Everything the BBC does now comes with a political agenda, whether the endless stream of BBC News puff pieces about drag queens, or the tiresome attempts to normalise cross-dressing men in every daytime TV storyline. Yet this CBeebies incident marks a bizarre new low. When the BBC is directing trans propaganda at children, recasting transvestite prostitutes as loving mothers, it is waving a womanly willy in the face of every licence-fee payer.
Added:
How many drag stories this year by the BBC? It’s only Feb so….I am guessing… 935. Close?
— Jill Foster (@JournalistJill) February 22, 2025
Mick Hartley 
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