Toddlers Targeted by Publishers With “Sparkly” Books Promoting Becoming Transgender
Toddlers are being targeted with “sparkly” books that promote becoming transgender, with a fifth of publishers’ transgender-related products being aimed at children, research has found. The Telegraph has the story.
Campaign groups Sex Matters and SEEN in Publishing have carried out the first comprehensive report of its kind examining gender ideology in the publishing industry.
The report found that gender ideology – the belief that being a ‘woman’ can be independent of biological sex – has become “dominant” in the industry.
The review concluded that the state of children’s publishing is “particularly concerning”.
It found that a “shiny, sparkly world of trans identities” is being promoted to young readers, with “many aimed at toddlers”.
Recent titles aimed at children include Julian is a Mermaid, Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?, and She’s My Dad.
The audit of the publishing industry found that of 21 publishers surveyed, a fifth of their output on transgender-related products was targeted at children.
The report raised concerns that the message in the books was often that becoming transgender will “resolve bodily hatred and create enduring joy in the form of ‘trans euphoria’”.
The report quotes an extract from the book I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, which states: “From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body.
“She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn’t feel like herself in boy’s clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.”
The report warns that “ideological marketing to children risks causing extensive harm”, particularly by suggesting that “a trans identity can cure any bodily discomfort or anxiety that they may be feeling”.
It suggested this could set children down the path to medically transitioning by undergoing hormone therapy or surgery.
The report also warns that many books embed the idea that “if girls like clothes and toys that are more typically aimed at boys, they may really be a boy in a girl’s body”.
The concerns come after last year’s Cass Review which concluded that children who think they are transgender should not be rushed into treatment they may regret.
The report also follows April’s Supreme Court decision which ruled that the definition of a woman is based solely on biological sex.
The problems highlighted in children’s publishing are part of a wider issue with ideological conformity in the industry, the report claimed. …
The report concludes by calling on the publishing industry to “make a clear commitment to freedom of speech both internally and in commissioned work”.
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I really don’t know what to say except to me, this is disgusting.
The problem is that we are sitting in the middle of trap that is difficult if not impossible to escape. Here is the trap. There’s nothing wrong with being gay or transgender right? Of course not we all say. We don’t want to appear bigoted a d most of us really don’t care what people do with their own lives. So yeah, its fine, there s nothing wrong with it. Ok, so if there is nothing wrong with it then being gay or not being gay, being trans or not trans, its equal, right? You don’t want to discriminate do you? And again, of course not we say. We are tolerant kind people and don’t want anyone to suffer for something like that. So yes its all equal and they should be treated equally. Great, so if straight, gay, lesbian, trans, is all the same, all equal, then what problem do you have teaching kids that the two things are just as valid and people should be treated equally regardless? And there is the trap. We say we believe in equality and it’s all the same, but we don’t really think it. Out tolerance and our kindness is used against… Read more »
It’s only a trap if your position is that this “trap” applies to a child or rather it’s impressionable and undeveloped brain.
I think it’s possible to agree with the equality part for adults but then quite reasonably to tell anyone preaching this crap to kids to go and f themselves.
How. What is your argument for saying you don’t want children being taught that being gay or being trans is just as good as not? If they’re equal and there’s nothing wrong with it, why do you care?
Nothing to do with equality stewart- I dont want pre-pubescent children, especially my grandchildren, anything about gay, trans or heterosexual sex until they are mature enough to understand the concepts.
Children understand perfectly well what a boy and a girl is. They understand mummies and daddies. So believe me they are perfectly capable of understanding mummies and mummies and daddies and daddies boys that decide they want to be girls and girls that want to be boys. They understand it alright. That’s the problem.
What I think you are saying is that you don’t want them to hear all that stuff until they understand first what you and I would consider normal. And only then, when they understand that the other stuff is a deviation from normal, should it be explained to them.
But the people who run our country don’t agree with you. They say everything is equally normal and equally acceptable and equally desirable. And they’ve made laws to enshrine those ideas. So now it’s law.
So on the basis of that, there is no valid argument for not teaching all that stuff to children.
The argument is as basic as this. Children are as confused and as psychologically vulnerable enough as it is – as is the nature of being a child – so leave them the f*ck alone.
But the aggressive hateful Maoists behind this deliberate weakening of these youngsters minds though this sinister indoctrination festival know this full well and this is precisely what they are exploiting. The core group behind this are infesting these young minds with their toxic, destructive, Malthusian, anti-human agenda at the earliest age possible. The rest of them are just too scared or confused to stand up to it.
The clear and direct answer to these people should be; you know what you are doing, we know what you are doing, stay away from children or suffer some very serious consequences.
I think you are missing my point.
Being gay or being trans isn’t something toxic or destructive. It’s, apparently just as good as being straight and normal. That’s the entire premise of the social liberal agenda.
So whether you agree or not, like it or not, teaching a child about gay and trans people is, officially, no different to teaching them about the Norman conquest or photosynthesis or adverbs. It’s all the same. it’s neither good nor bad. It’s part of life that they need to learn about. That’s the official premise.
If there is nothing wrong with being gay or trans, why would you care if children are taught about it and explained it’s as valid an option as any other?
Your point seems to be that teaching young confused primary school children that some men like to have bottom sex with each other and that there are 300 genders in which anyone can decide to be anything, man women or animal, has the same educational equivalence as teaching them about the Battle of Hastings.
Which is only the case if you have a creepy need to confuse and sexualise kids at a very young age. Do you? Or am I missing your point?
If one reverts to cold logic Here is the trap.There’s nothing wrong with being gay or transgender right? No, I disgree. Being gay is not “wrong” but is clearly not be what was intended biologically. Its an evolutionary dead-end for reproduction. But, far be it for me to question the drivers that lead to same-sex attraction – it just doesnt tick my box. As human beings, most male gays I’ve met have more caring and empathetic characters than normal heterosexuals, which are generally good traits. but in a physical, life-threatening, crisis situation I’d rather have predictable normal males backing me up. I don’t know why gays are over-represented in career politics nowadays other than a harnessing of those characteristics by those who sidestep reality.. Trans is something different. It is a misrepresentation of reality aimed at people in a vulnerable state of change. Aimed at those impressionable, neuroplastic children of pre-pubescent age, it seems nothing short of perversion and abuse. However, as with most mental sufferers, I am inclined to cut those who need sympathy some slack. I conside most of us to be tolerant kind people and yes, we don’t want anyone to suffer for something like that. I… Read more »
So clearly we agree.
My point, though, is that until as a society we change what is now not only accepted dogma but also aggressively imposed dogma you won’t be able to go into polite society and get away with statements like this one:
I think it’s perverse, you think it’s perverse, most people think it’s perverse. But only a few of us say it. Most people nod and go along with the official dogma and are then horrified when strange books turn up in schools. As if there is no link between their quiet acquiescence and indoctrination of children into a new tacitly accepted national ideology.
Ummm, what happened to parenting, this utter gob shite would not wash with me, this kind of filth is the only excuse to burn a book!
Agreed, Wes Streeting is a total hypocrite and the only thing the ‘puberty blocker’ drugs should be used for is chemically castrating paedophiles, in fact, why not all sex offenders? Anybody that thinks interfering with a child’s natural physiological development ( of which puberty is an essential part ) is guilty of abusing the human rights of that child; ”Yes, even after all we’ve learned, the medical establishment is still flirting with the idea that we can chemically freeze children in time and expect no consequences. Effectively, UK health secretary Wes Streeting has banned puberty blockers with one hand and reintroduced them with the other – dressing up the same failed experiment as ‘research’. Distinguished clinicians such as David Bell, Marcus and Susan Evans, Az Hakeem, Stephen Levine and others have also added their names to the accompanying ‘Statement of concern’ opposing the proposed NHS puberty-blocker trial. But where is the public outrage? Let’s be clear: puberty is not just about pubic hair and hormones. It’s a profound metamorphosis – physically, cognitively, emotionally. It’s what makes adults out of children. Strip that away, and you’re left with something chilling: children suspended in a twilight state, medically sterilised and emotionally stalled,… Read more »
Just one of the many possible complications we never hear about;
”Detransitioned male Robin: “I actually had complications from ‘tucking’, where the spermatic cord sort of tied around itself and caused testicular torsion, which basically cuts off the blood supply to the testicle so I had to have emergency surgery on one horrible Christmas Eve”
https://x.com/genspect/status/1937676898248871946
When I was growing up in the ’60s, I was a bit of a tom-boy but I’m female, not gay, went on to marry and have two sons. I am an ISTJ on the Myers-Briggs system – which is far more common among males than females.
It’s scary to think that these days, a young girl like me (including those who, unlike me, are gay) could be encouraged down the route of puberty blockers, surgery and sterilisation.
I wonder how many boys, who have the more emotional personality on the Myers-Briggs system (and are quite possibly just gay) are being encouraged to believe they “have a girls brain in a male body) and put on the trans pathway?
I consider this, and these books, to be child abuse.
Groomers
Outside a private clinical setting, any discussion on intimate sexual matters with toddlers or small children and without the supervision of their parents or guardians should be viewed as child abuse. Time to rescue our young from this clear and present danger.