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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Fuming about this atrocious mother on BBC radio who believes girls can't be girls if they ike pirates

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MsFire · 20/09/2016 14:22

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v37fb

Speechless at the lack of quesitoning by the reporter about the assumptions on gender expressed by this mother. She is screwing up an already confused child, when all she needed to say was "girls can wear trousers and like Wolverine." I am going to complain to Radio 4.

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LassWiTheDelicateAir · 21/09/2016 08:33

She came across as very narcissistic and Leo is following in her footsteps.

Cocoabutton · 21/09/2016 08:38

It is so sad. Women fought for the right to be recognised as people and to dismantle barriers built around sex. Women in other parts of the world are still fighting, and dying, for this right. And here we are, building them up again.

NotAnotherTransThread · 21/09/2016 11:04

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MsFire · 21/09/2016 11:14

Here's how to complain about this programme. www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ I have never in my whole life complained to the BBC. But this shit is going mainstream completely unchallenged. If enough of us do so, I hope they will at least consider the opposite view.

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Twunk · 21/09/2016 11:27

NotAnotherTransThread Grin

ScarfForAGiraffe · 21/09/2016 11:36

I was anxious when my 7 year old saw a cbbc programme about a trans child "they were born in the wrong body." she loves playing with boys, lego etc as I've brought her up to believe girls can do anything! I'm nervous she'll interpret this as "I'm really a boy" if schools start pedalling the gender stereotypes and "wrong body" stuff.

user5318008 · 21/09/2016 12:38

On another forum I fell into conversation with a MTT talking about puberty blockers for boys, and he said had some very worrying opinions around not letting puberty 'spoil' their young bodies.

They always gloss over the fact that SRS uses the penis to create the wannabe vagina so a child who goes from blockers pre-puberty to hormones without their penis developing has no chance of ever looking even vaguely female bodied as an adult.

I don't want to bring up the subject again with her, but I am honestly wondering who made and distributed the film.

GIRES, Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence are the three I've seen preaching for trans education in schools most often. GIRES has non-binary and trans penguins aimed at educating 3-6-year-olds. Good stuff.

Elendon · 21/09/2016 23:19

When I was a child there was this programme that had a bloke off TOTP on it. He smoked a cigar. He was allowed to do this in a TV studio with loads of kids on it. Sometimes the kids would sit on his knee, they often did so by being urged on by their parent. He fixed it for the children. They seemed to come from all sorts of backgrounds, but mainly disadvantaged ones.

This bloke turned out to be a sexual abuser. But his abuse and shame only came after he died. Loads of influential people knew he was a nasty person, but they did nothing about it.

No one goes to his grave.

WankingMonkey · 22/09/2016 14:18

I put in a complaint to BBC radio 4 about this. I feel very strongly about this matter. I bet I don't get a reply or they write back 'we do not tolerate transphobia at the BBC' or something, even though nothing I wrote was transphobic.

Mind I did ask them why they think airing programs glorifying child abuse is a good idea, given the recent abuse scandal they have been involved in.

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