Thanks to @StoatlyL for making me look at this document. An…

Searching for heroes they alighted on the topic of gender. The BBC seems to be obsessed with fulfilling its diversity objectives by obsessive rumination on “gender”. Sneaking propaganda onto children’s TV is the low point.

In this document the maker of the programme, Cat Lewis, talks about the editorial decisions and the programme advisors

Pushing boundaries by promoting a bodily disassociative condition to impressionable children.

Emotive narratives are key to normalising ideas about children being born in the wrong body. That thing that nobody says....oh wait.

Leo, our kids are told, is a boy who was born in a girls body 👇

Leo is already on puberty blockers. One of the contributors has made documentaries on adult transgender people and knows how hard ot has been to make an adult transition. The use of children in this way is retrospective wish fulfilment for adults

Lyndsey tell us they wanted to make a film about this new alternative pathway. Well, maybe, a documentary on adult TV would have been one thing but you are normalising this. For kids. On children’s TV. That’s a different matter

Leo has already shared their story, publicly, with their mothers support. The makers are keen to emphasise they recognise their duty of care, to Leo! Not so much for the kids left to watch CBBC whilst parents are entirely unaware this is seen as suitable programming.

Now comes an interesting aside. Leo has already been in touch with Press For Change. A leading Transgender Lobby group involving the likes of Stephen Whittle and Christine Burns.

Press for Change and very well connected. Here they outline their work and links to the EHRC as well as the other lobby groups they work with.

Here we are told Leo has already been on #PubertyBlockers for six months. The children’s show can’t use a narrative arc around Leo accessing surgery (thank goodness) so, instead will use the acquisition of a passport with a Male identity.

One of the advisors is a gay male who identifies with the experience of being bullied. What about the societal bullying involved in telling kids they are #BornWrong? How many are just “femme” gay males or “butch lesbians”? Now retreating into, a faux-straight medicalised closet?

The documentary makers managed to persuade the UKs main Gender Identity Clinic to work with them. This, they believed would guarantee the accuracy of their work. The #Tavistock #Accuracy

The documentary uses an arresting visual to illustrate how a boy brain can end up in a girls body. We used to debunk #LadyBrain and tell girls they can do the things boys do...(within reason) to mitigate the negative impact of outdated sex stereotypes on girls (& boys).
Now?

Phil also came up with the bright idea of visually representing the idea that #PubertyBlockers are a pause. We now know this is not true. #KeiraBell

Here’s a clip from that part of the documentary with Polly Carmichael head of GIDs.

Here’s what Polly was saying around the same time. Pressure from #Mermaids #GIREs to lower the age. Now #PubertyBlockers are used on kids as young as 10. (Or were until the #KeiraBell case)

Here’s an interview given by Christine Burns. A late transitioner activist. Once again claiming blockers are a pause when we know nearly a 100% continue onto a medical pathway. Listen out for the bit undermining parents of under 16s.

https://t.co/lVBXYktPYL

Here’s another clip from press for change talking about blockers on Woman’s hour. Polly Carmichael and Simone Giordano. Also arguing they just “pause” development. Research *already* showed, in the “Dutch Study” that invariably children don’t desist.

https://t.co/ZToYupDaY7

The documentary won an Emmy for best Kids “factual” programme
And Royal Television Society award for Children’s TV

This Children’s Media group was instrumental in setting up this group. The contact for their organisation shows they provided the admin services for this Parliamentary group,

One of the SNP MPs involved will be familiar to scottish women

Here’s the current Academic Advisory Board to the Children’s Media Foundation. The first one on the list is based at the Tavistock and was trained by the Tavistock Clinic.

Here’s the link to the document. I Am Leo is on page 92.

https://t.co/7FMqcD2s2M

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Here’s a YouTube of the documentary

https://t.co/Qv2NAiVUNI

Thanks to @StoatlyL for making me look at this document. An organisation on children’s media which is instrumental in an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children’s Media. Provides more information on the CBBC programme on a “transgender child” called Leo.

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