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Taxpayer-funded children's show with 'trans voices' branded tasteless

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IwantToRetire · 17/12/2023 00:31

Scheduled shows at the Southbank include queer cabaret and 'tour around the human body' with trans, non-binary doctor

Upcoming events at the London arts centre will also include a show titled “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions”, an “unforgettable celebration of queer activism”, and another about dancer who wants to translate their moves into “renewable energy”, according to dance company Marlborough Productions.

The Centre, which receives £16,828,042 in annual funding from Arts Council England, will play host to “Pxssy Liquor’s Office Christmas Party”, “a cabaret collective for queer gals and nb [non-binary] pals” that provides an “antidote to the male-gaze saturated cabaret scene”.

As part of its “Imagine Children’s Festival” in 2024, the Centre has an event taking place called “Little Big Sing with Trans Voices”, marketed for 5+.

The organisers said: “After witnessing the growing <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/11Y4B/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/21/trans-prejudice-doubles-three-years-jk-rowling-cancel/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anti-trans rhetoric specifically aimed at children, both artists felt an urgent need to effect change and create a provision for mental wellness.”

Other events include “a tour around the human body with trans non-binary emergency doctor Dr Ronx”, an “inspiring, interactive writing session for children, with social justice at its heart” and an author discussing his debut novel, Pity, “a lament for a lost way of life”, about two brothers from a mining town, one with a “side hustle in sex work” and “weekly drag gigs”.

Full article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/16/southbank-hosts-childrens-show-with-trans-voices/

Can also be read here https://archive.ph/11Y4B

Taxpayer-funded children's show with 'trans voices' branded tasteless

Scheduled shows include queer cabaret and 'tour around the human body' with trans, non-binary doctor

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/16/southbank-hosts-childrens-show-with-trans-voices

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PlanetJanette · 17/12/2023 07:42

FrancescaContini · 17/12/2023 02:14

I’d pay £16 million to keep these Pxssy freaks peddling their sexist/sexualised shite a million miles away from my children.

Of course this is precisely why the Telegraph presented the article as it did - to get gullible (or bad faith) folk to assume that the headline reference to a kids show was relevant to all of the shows mentioned.

Lets be clear on this - the OPs excerpt mentions two events aimed at kids:

A music and singing workshop with a choir called ‘Trans Voices’; and a show by an emergency medicine doctor about the human body.

There is no claim that the actual content of either of these events is unsuitable for children. Literally the only objection is that the choir is made up of trans people, and the doctor is non-binary.

PermanentTemporary · 17/12/2023 06:49

Some of that sounds great, some not. I'd agree it sounds more focused on adults looking back than on children, but I like the sound of the interactive writing session.

£16m is presumably the total Southbank budget, right? I wonder how much income it generates, including foreign exchange? I'd guess a metric fuckton of cash, unlike say the Telegraph.

FrancescaContini · 17/12/2023 02:14

I’d pay £16 million to keep these Pxssy freaks peddling their sexist/sexualised shite a million miles away from my children.

TempestTost · 17/12/2023 02:04

It's just so lame.

I wonder about all the people who have something worthwhile to say artistically. Either something new, or just well crafted ideas, or excellent workmanship.

But don't get funding because they are not on trend.

Boiledbeetle · 17/12/2023 00:57

Commenting on the Southbank Centre events, author Lionel Shriver, said: “Maybe we should all be grateful when the ‘progressive’ left highlights its own absurdity, embarrasses itself with its own clichés, and so loudly advertises its obliviousness to what kind of entertainment is suitable for small children.

“As a commentator, I should be professionally thankful when people I would otherwise be obliged to mock do my work for me. But I do worry if these tasteless displays of vacuousness and desperation for attention are publicly financed. Let them humiliate themselves on their own dime.”

Lionel says it much better than I could. She obviously isn't impressed!