to find CBBC's 'Just a Girl' programme re a transgender child inappropriate?

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..totally prepared to be told I am being U on this one, but...

My 7 year old daughter is currently watching 'Just a Girl' on CBBC. This seems to be a dramatisation about a pre-teen, transgender girl- so born a born, but living as a girl. Also either currently or looking into taking hormone blockers.

AIBU to think this is an inappropriate topic for a young age group?

This is dangerous propaganda and is another reason not to pay the licence fee.

The cult of transideology is comparable to eugenics imo.

The rush to experiment on, mutilate, castrate and sterilise people who don't 'fit in'. How is that not abhorrent to liberal minded people?

My DD likes to wear trousers, climb trees, play with her chemistry set.

My ds likes to wear nail varnish and play with glitter.

They are both behaving normally!

It reminds me of the attempts to medicalise normal childbirth-worse outcomes all round.

Leave children be.

Giving them hormones is what will mess them up. It is child abuse. It shouldn't be anywhere near childrens tv.

We really really need less "a boy wants to wear a dress / play with a doll and is therefore a girl" bollocks and a lot more "boys and girls can wear anything and play with anything they want". If we lived in a society where it was acceptable for any men to go full Izzard, there would be a lot less of this nonsense

This bears repeating. It's what feminists have been saying for centuries.

Toad I like the way you expressed '100 metre sprint.' Very good. However I think that's the useful idiots, the attention seekers, the handmaidens, the ignorant and the 'kumbaya' types in the media. I believe there is a deliberate and malicious anti woman element that has no intention of making up for failures with feminist progress, and every intention of turning it back.

I believe there is a deliberate and malicious anti woman element that has no intention of making up for failures with feminist progress, and every intention of turning it back

I feel like there is something very strange about this huge emphasis on transgenderism that has come out of the blue, but haven't a clue what is behind it.

I totally judge the parents of this child, as well as the programme makers, for boxing this kid into a corner. Isn't the case that 80+% of kids who explore their gender turn out not to be trans at all? (And that's even without getting into the thorny question of what being trans means.)

If this kid discovers later - as they very likely will - that they aren't trans, then deciding to detransition after so very publicly being a poster child for this, will be a very difficult thing indeed. Can you imagine how their parents - who have invested so much in their kid being trans - will react?

This is horrible shit, and I would never let me my child watch such rubbish. Why on Earth is there a young child changing genders at such a young age, what does the child know about what lies ahead in life. When they are older and want to change thats different. But not as a child. And broadcasting such nonsense to other young children is irresponsible!

The issue of socially constructed gender is fairly irrelevant to a child who FEELS they are of the opposite sex to that of their birth.

Socially constructed gender could only possibly be irrelevant to a child who was being raised in a completely gender-neutral society. And wouldn't it be really interesting to see if these feelings arose at all in such a society?

My son was gentle, liked nice clothes and did not like competitive sports. We never suggested he was feminine. He's 41 now and happily married to a lovely woman.

My ten year old niece likes to wear jeans and charge around. She fights physically when she's cross. I hope no-one has suggested she should be a boy.

How terrible for children to believe they're the wrong gender because they don't fit the stereotypes!

Beebeeeight. Agree with you. Let children be. This is crazy shit for a kids TV programme.