A couple of weeks ago we had the bbc visit our 11-13yr old pupils (I'm a high school teacher), under the guise of introducing a Share Your Story competition. The idea is that the kids have to make a video/film telling 'their story'.
As soon as it started a young woman who was pretty gender non-conforming joined the presenter on stage (introduced as a bbc researcher), and another young woman who was very much gender conforming (introduced as a bbc social media manager) also joined. The presenter told the kids that the guest speakers would 'tell their stories' in order to 'inspire' them to think about how they could tell their own stories (?).
The first young woman stood up and opened with 'when I was 17 I went on testosterone' and her segment continued in that vein for about 25 minutes. All the usual sexist nonsense followed (hated my female body, hated female puberty, loved video games, hated dresses, mainly friends with boys, etc, etc) and then she took questions at the end. The other woman said NOTHING. It was all about the trans identified female (who never explicitly said what she identified as, or her pronouns, so I'm using sex based pronouns). Myself and my colleagues were shocked this was being presented to our pupils with no nuance or balance, it was very much like 'if you also don't meet these girly standards then you're not a girl'. At one point she boasted that she had recently visited her old high school and there are now 13 transgender pupils, whereas 5/6 years ago when she was a pupil there, she was the only one...
I looked into the bbc competition/roadshow and its supposed to be travelling round the country visiting schools and 'bringing 100 diverse speakers into schools to tell pupils about their personal journeys'... the cynic in me wonders how many of these 'diverse' speakers will be trans-identified, but maybe I'm just being paranoid 🤔