Mick Hartley

More on the BBC’s pro-trans bias, with its effect on children, from the Telegraph:

Hundreds of parents have accused the BBC of damaging their children with a “constant drip-feed of one-sided pro-trans programmes”.

The Bayswater Support Group (BSG), which represents 650 mothers and fathers of primary school-aged children and teenagers who believe they are trans, has called on Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, to launch an investigation into the corporation’s coverage….

The BSG said the BBC’s biased approach stretched back nearly a decade, promoting trans lifestyles to young people who were already vulnerable because of their age and mental health needs.

At times, the BBC even appeared to encourage children to undertake irreversible medical transition, the parents claim.…

The spokesman for the BSG said: “For the past decade, the constant stream of propaganda about gender and trans activism the BBC has transmitted has played a significant role in creating a dangerous culture for children.

“Specifically, non-conforming children who have been led to believe simplistic identity labels and extreme medical interventions can resolve complex feelings of adolescent and neurodevelopmental distress.

“The end result of this is a generation of teens and young adults who have come to severe harm, frequently self-diagnosed and self-medicated, estranged from families. The role of the BBC in marketing and promoting these identities to them throughout childhood has been a key influencer, not just of children but schools, policymakers and the public, meaning families have faced unnecessary hostility for trying to protect their child.”

Like the episode of Doctors last year, in which a mother said she knew her daughter was transgender because, when she was six, her best friend was a boy and she liked playing with mud. The girl’s father was portrayed negatively for not accepting his daughter’s desire to be a man.

Or the “transgender” medic in an episode of Casualty, broadcast before the watershed last year, who said before undergoing a double mastectomy: “I’m just happy that I’ll look like the person I feel on the inside”.

Plenty more, of course…