by Bruce Newsome, TCW
CHILDREN, a new report finds, are still being bombarded with transgender propaganda, with the idea that gender is fluid and is something which can be chosen. Children are being subjected to this indoctrination at their most impressionable age – from as young as three years – through the nefarious medium of children’s ‘literature’.
The recent SEEN in Publishing report, called Through the Looking Glass, reveals how prevalent such literature has become in the last 10 years; how dogma about gender and sexuality became routine in children’s literature. Over 99 pages it documents and analyses the last decade’s trend for trans-activist narratives in children’s publishing from picture books to young adult fiction. The contributors explain how the ideological concepts of the ‘trans child’ and ‘gender affirmative care’ have elbowed their way on to publishers’ lists and into the family home, libraries and schools ‘becoming normalised and acquiring moral heft’.
Now that we have a clear understanding of the biology of sex and its immutable nature, and we also understand that the ‘trans child’ is a biologically illiterate fiction, promulgated through propagandist books that masquerade as ‘kind’ and ‘inclusive’, let’s take a deeper dive into the documented physical and psychological harms of ‘gender affirmative care’. Has publishing merely been ‘kind’ and ‘inclusive’ or has it harmed children?
The report contains content from nine named contributors sponsored by three organisations, some with unambiguous leftist politics. However it has to be commended exposing the irresponsibility of publishers in deciding to ride and exploit this woke fashion wave, for drawing attention to these books and for recognising their inherent dangers.
It finds the normalisation of the following themes in children’s literature: