CELEBRATING mothers is very important – as I constantly remind my own three children.
So I was delighted to discover CBeebies bigging up International Women’s Day with a special page on its website dedicated to “inspirational mums”.
Transgender Marsha P. Johnson – a gay activist and key figure in New York’s Stonewall Riots – was named an ‘inspirational mum’ in the CBeebies article[/caption]
The CBeebies article which included the drag queens among the list of inspiring mums[/caption]
Sylvia Rivera founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries with Marsha, funding the rent with sex work[/caption]
How nice. And no shortage of mums for those BBC journos to choose from.
Staying sane while managing to get children fed, dressed and off to school seems pretty inspirational to me and that’s before we take into account the hundreds of other things mothers do each day.
But this being the BBC, it’s not mums like you or me that kids are being told to admire.
Indeed, some of the “women” CBeebies is promoting to its young audience are not women at all. Two of them are American drag queens, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Okay, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, the BBC seems to be obsessed with drag queens.
From the cost of living crisis to dealing with diabetes, almost every news story seems to require the perspective of a drag queen or two.
But for children under the age of six? As part of celebrating inspirational mums? Give us a break, BBC, please.
But it gets worse.
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were not your bog-standard drag queens. They were not just men parading around in women’s frocks for a bit of light entertainment.
The BBC praises the pair for giving “a home, food, clothing and a sense of family to many LGBTQ+ kids made homeless by their biological families”. Sounds wholesome.
But what’s not pointed out is that this “home” was STAR House, in Greenwich Village, New York. STAR stands for Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries and Johnson and Rivera were prostitutes with deep connections to New York’s criminal underworld.
As “mothers”, these men ran a “home” awash with alcohol and drugs and completely lacking in basic sanitation.
It was an unhygienic, rubbish dump of a house and any children unfortunate enough to come across it would more than likely wind up shop-lifting or embroiled in pornography or prostitution.
Of course, in its rush to celebrate inspirational drag queen mothers, our licence-fee funded Beeb fails to mention any of this.
The BBC points out that this website is not current and has not been published for this year’s International Women’s Day.
But so what? When was it ever acceptable to introduce tiny tots to drag queen prostitutes?
Casual references to drag queens in discussions about “women” and “mothers” leave young children confused about gender and biology.
They instinctively know that girls grow up to be women and, perhaps, mothers, and boys to be men and maybe dads.
But here’s a website telling them something entirely different. It’s not just wrong to trick children like this, it could be dangerous too.
No parent in their right mind wants their beautiful son or daughter to be convinced they need to take powerful medication and undergo surgery in order to change their gender.
Under the guise of promoting transgender rights, activists have sexualised almost every part of childhood. In the process, they have robbed children of their innocence.
Joanna Williams
Far seedier is the casual sexualisation of children. Drag is a form of adult entertainment, perfect for a bawdy, drunken night out with friends but completely inappropriate for children.
Just look at the names of some high profile drag queens. There’s Flow Job, A’Whora and Ophelia Peaches for starters.
They are raunchy, sexualised performers who need to be slapped with an 18-certificate and kept out of schools and children’s libraries.
Once, we had a clear distinction between adulthood and childhood. Adults sought to protect children from ideas and behaviours they were too young to understand.
Sadly, this is not the case any more. It is not just the BBC that thinks highly sexualised content is suitable for children.
Local libraries hold “drag queen story hours” where permissive parents laugh about raising kids who know seven different words for “penis” before they can even read.
Shops, meanwhile, flog brightly coloured picture books like “Grandad’s Pride” to four-year-olds. It tells the story of an old man who comes out as gay and attends his first Pride Parade, in fetish gear, and, while there, kisses another man.
Don’t even get me started on the school curriculum.
Through “Relationships and Sex Education” classes, children have been introduced to a range of sexual practices that would make even seasoned porn-stars blush.
Joanna Williams, author of How Woke Won, believes children are being targeted with sexualised content[/caption]
Marsha P. Johnson was a well-known face in New York’s Greenwich Village but died in mysterious circumstances in 1992[/caption]
Personally, I would rather 10-year-olds be taught long division than learning about anal sex. But that’s just me.
Under the guise of promoting transgender rights, activists have sexualised almost every part of childhood. In the process, they have robbed children of their innocence.
This sounds old-fashioned, sentimental even. But it shouldn’t be.
Adults have a responsibility to protect children. But force-feeding them knowledge about sex and sexuality is the exact opposite of keeping them safe.
It is grooming children to be open to sexualised behaviour before they are physically or emotionally ready for it.
That the BBC engages in such practices is despicable. We need to let kids be kids.
A BBC Spokesperson told The Sun: “This archived page was published five years ago in the ‘grown-up’ section of the CBeebies website to celebrate International Women’s Day.”
