BBC “Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda”
The BBC has been accused of “indoctrinating” children with pro-trans programmes after a number of children’s shows broadcast by the corporation uncritically presented activist perspectives. The Telegraph has the story.
When presented with a dossier of examples of the pro-trans “bias”, BBC executives dismissed the concerns and the content remains online.
The BBC is in crisis after the Telegraph exposed an internal 8,000-word memo compiled by a whistleblower that alleged widespread bias within the corporation. The corporation has come under fire for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech, as well as alleged impartiality in its coverage of the conflict in Gaza, climate change and gender identity.
This week Richard Burgess, a senior BBC News executive, admitted the broadcaster had made mistakes in its coverage of transgender issues.
The fresh accusations are likely to add to concerns about impartiality across BBC programme-making more broadly.
Campaigners raised concerns to the BBC about Waterloo Road, the long-running school drama, I am Leo, a documentary about a transgender 13 year-old, and an interview with Dr Ronx Ikharia, a non-binary CBBC presenter.
A 2025 episode of Waterloo Road, for example, focuses on Lois, a boy living as a girl who is shown to have stopped visiting his grandmother, who had dementia, after she ‘dead named’ him by using his birth name, Jake.
The dossier of concerns handed to the BBC by Transgender Trend, a campaign group, and seen by the Telegraph, says: “‘Dead naming’ is an activist term which is portrayed here as something so serious that it is more important than visiting a close dying relative.”
In another episode of Waterloo Road from 2013, schoolgirl Kacey Barry is shown binding her breasts to look less feminine.
Chest-binding has been described by parent groups as a form of ‘self-harm’ which has been found to cause breathing difficulties, chronic back pain, changes to the spine and broken ribs. But these concerns are not reflected in the show.
In 2014, CBBC showed a documentary, I Am Leo, centring on the life of Leo Waddell, a 13 year-old girl who was living as a boy and taking puberty blockers.
Although no longer available to watch on iPlayer, a video of “tips for coping with bullying” remains available on CBBC’s YouTube channel in which Leo described having been “born in a girl’s body”.
Campaigners said the this phrase was “unevidenced and activist language”, adding: “It is not possible to be born in the wrong body.”
Transgender Trend also found that Dr Ronx Ikharia, a non-binary medic who featured in the CBBC programme Operation Ouch, had recommended breast binders in a 2020 article on the BBC’s website.
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Well at least woketard Tim Davie has gone, but his replacement will be no better. That crappy organization is so infested with the woke virus it’s past redemption, same as the NHS. If woke were a cancer they’d be at the ‘terminal’ stage. And both of these institutions used to be a source of pride, but now it’s the wrong sort! 😮
Speaking of men who are helping to drive this toxic ideology, here’s another irritating AF clown;
“Queer and trans people are under threat”
”Actor, activist, and The Traitors US host Alan Cumming says that all art is a form of protest. After becoming Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the Scottish Highlands he’s launched LGBTQ+ festival ‘Out in the Hills’.”
https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1988947722649629022
Correction: woke is a cancer and it’s all across the BBC the civil service, academe, big business, half the media.
But my feeling is the worst is past, but it’ll be a long time dying.
Dr Ronx Ikharia, a non-binary (hermaphrodite) medic. I don’t think so.
“The BBC admitted mistakes had been made”
What they actually mean is that they don’t think it was a mistake to broadcast the content they did and are highly likely to broadcast similar content in the future.
If you do something deliberately then it’s not a mistake.
The BBC with the largest global reach of any media abusing its responsibilities. Doing harm in fact.
And if ever one required irrefutable evidence that all things woke, and generally progressive, are being driven by both men and women, the dreaded Beeb provides a textbook example. NHS is another obvious one, the amount of managers they have of both sexes.
Only the wilfully ignorant would deny reality and argue otherwise.
Not ‘misleading’ at all, defamatory most definitely. Writer needs to learn the difference between ‘impartiality’ and ‘partiality’.
I only have a problem with the BBC whilst the licence fee remains. Once it becomes a subscription service, as it should be, then it can pump out whatever political propaganda it likes and we can all chose whether to fund it or not. It’s days of being the representative voice of the nation are long gone.
For pro-trans read the mutilation of young bodies and their endocrine systems with drugs, surgery, and harmful practices. To hell with it, since that is its home.