from The Christian Institute
A BBC-commissioned drama has been criticised for pandering to transgender ideology.
Maya Forstater, Chief Executive of Sex Matters, branded the programme “regressive”, while Daily Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore dismissed it as another example of the BBC “spouting gender nonsense”.
The eight-part television series, ‘What it feels like for a girl’, is based on the memoirs of trans activist Paris Lees, a man who identifies as a woman.
‘Delusion’
BBC journalist Emma Saunders described the series as “a raw, hedonistic, brutal – but often hilarious – tale of Byron (Ellis Howard), a 15-year-old boy who is trying to find his identity”.
However, women’s rights campaigner Forstater warned: “Presenting the idea of an effeminate boy ‘becoming a girl’ as an edgy coming-of-age story is presenting delusion as self-discovery.”