Disgraceful Sex Change Documentary Bbc

[gordiescotland1]

Why cant children be allowed to be children?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3885922/Parents-slam-damaging-BBC-sex-change-aimed-six-year-olds.html

[naomi24]

Messing with young minds is disgraceful. Hopefully parents have the sense to monitor their children's viewing.

[Gromit]

Where did you watch it?
I was under the impression this had not aired yet.

[fiction-factory]

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it either although I can't immediately think why. However I am puzzled by the references to "aimed at six year olds", "targeting children as young as six" and "BBC is making this programme freely available to children as young as six"- where does the six come from, and surely it's freely available to anyone over the age of one unless the parents oversee their viewing habits

[naomi24]

Gromit, //I was under the impression this had not aired yet. //

According to the link it's "available on the CBBC website".

[naomi24]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/just-a-girl

[Gromit]

Ah, it has never been broadcast, it is on a website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/just-a-girl

Just skimmed through it. Doesn't seem disgraceful.

[douglas9401]

Just because we can doesn't always mean we should.
I'm sure there's video somewhere of an earnest, bespectacled 23 year old expert justifying this with sentences beginning 'So'.

[naomi24]

Gromit, //Doesn't seem disgraceful. //

The programme might not be disgraceful, but messing with young minds is.

[Gromit]

Naomi,

It is not a transgender story, it is the story about a girl starting school. It is not messing with young childrens minds.

Saying that, I think parents should be able to trust the content on the CBBC website. There should have been more of a warning, and maybe shouldhave been behind a parental passcode.

[naomi24]

Gromit, //it is the story about a girl starting school//

It seems to be a bit more than that.

From the link:

The programme, Just A Girl, depicts an 11-year-old’s struggle to get hormones that stunt puberty, making it easier to have sex-change surgery in the future.

[ummmm]

I don't see how it stops children being children.

[naomi24]

Gromit, //It is not a transgender story//

When you say you skimmed through this programme it must have been a very quick 'skim'. Beginning at about 2.12 the girl says "Today I'm finally going to talk about me being transgender", and the word "Transgender" is flashed right across the screen.

[Baldric]

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-10-30/bbc-defend-cbbcs-just-a-girl-following-claim-that-transgender-series-is-inappropriate-for-young-audience

[Gromit]

Naomi,
There was a screen grab of that in the Mail article.

http://i0.wp.com/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/39dae93f00000578-0-image-a-7_1477772070131.jpg?crop=0px%2C2px%2C1200px%2C675px&resize=300%2C168&quality=80&strip=all&ssl=1&;w=300&h=168

Perhaps Mumsnet can bring a class action lawsuit against the BBC for trauma and brain damage to their children.

[naomi24]

Gromit, //There was a screen grab of that in the Mail article.//

I didn't see that but if you did I'm at a loss to understand why you said "It is not a transgender story".

//Perhaps Mumsnet can bring a class action lawsuit against the BBC for trauma and brain damage to their children. //

Sarcasm isn't helpful.

[youngmafbog]

Typical of the liberal left Metropolitan 'elite' running the BBC.

This is social engineering funded by the taxpayers. It is an absolute disgrace.

[cassa333]

How do you normalise something that isn't the norm?

You tell it to the kids as early as you can and keep reinforceing it over time.

That is what happens with everything. Look how sexualised the world, or even just the UK, has become? When I was young there was very little sex on the TV. Now it is in 'young peoples' programmes all the time in some form or another.

If it happens, even infrequently, it can be normalised.

The BBC shouldn't be doing this but I have always thought the BBC are a law unto themselves anyway.

[Gromit]

cassa333
You watch sex in 'young peoples' television all the time.

Really, which programmes do you see it in specifically?

The 9 o'clock watershed seems to be holding firm.

[douglas9401]

A very even-handed review.