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Transgender Documentary on BBC2 Thursday 2100 "Transgender Kids: Who Knows best?"

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 06/01/2017 08:09

Looks like an interesting watch, that does not just accept the trans children or they will kill themselves rhetoric. I just hope the BBC actually do show it and aren't bullied into not showing it.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088kxbw

The blurb:

Around the world there has been a huge increase in the number of children being referred to gender clinics - boys saying they want to be girls and vice versa. Increasingly, parents are encouraged to adopt a 'gender affirmative' approach - fully supporting their children's change of identity. But is this approach right?

In this challenging documentary, BBC Two's award-winning This World strand travels to Canada, where one of the world's leading experts in childhood gender dysphoria (the condition where children are unhappy with their biological sex) lost his job for challenging the new orthodoxy that children know best. Speaking on TV for the first time since his clinic was closed, Dr Kenneth Zucker believes he is a victim of the politicisation of transgender issues. The film presents evidence that most children with gender dysphoria eventually overcome the feelings without transitioning and questions the science behind the idea that a boy could somehow be born with a 'female brain' or vice versa. It also features 'Lou' - who was born female and had a double mastectomy as part of transitioning to a man. She now says it is a decision that 'haunts' her and feels that her gender dysphoria should have been treated as a mental health issue.

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DameDeDoubtance · 07/01/2017 18:54

there is already a petition to stop it being broadcast, sigh.

Aliasnumberone · 07/01/2017 18:26

fine where did you see the petition to have it reviewed?

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 07/01/2017 16:14

If there is a need for "clarification" or a right to reply, I think the programme should be broadcast as it is, unedited, and followed up with a discussion/debate where the contentious issues can be aired. This programme seems to balance out a lot of recent BBC content where the transing of children has been presented in an entirely positive and unquestioning way. Can you imagine during the Wakefield/MMR controversy Andrew Wakefield having the right to review & seek edits to opposing coverage? I see these issues as being similar in terms of potential societal harms & proper debate and exploration of opposing viewpoints as being entirely justified and needed.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 07/01/2017 16:04

I see there is now much discomfort about the showing of the program, and there is a very emotive petition for it to be reviewed by an expert prior to showing to make sure it contains nothing "damaging"

As someone pointed out the extreme end of transactivism seems remarkable like Scientology when you look at the techniques employed to quash dissent.

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QueenLaBeefah · 06/01/2017 18:21

Hopefully the drugs used to suppress puberty will be discussed. I have grave concerns over their long term safety.

Northernlurker · 06/01/2017 18:16

I hope that gets shown. Such an important aspect of the debate.

BiscuitMillionaire · 06/01/2017 18:13

Hallelujah! Some sense being talked, I hope.

WankingMonkey · 06/01/2017 18:12

Sounds very interesting. I can see it being pulled though once the TAs get wind of it. Given this subject wasn't even allowed to be spoken about with the NSPCC..I doubt they will allow it to be shown on TV.

whoputthecatout · 06/01/2017 08:59

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088kxbw

Aliasnumberone · 06/01/2017 08:49

Looks interesting, when is it on? The link isn't working.