This transgender drama does no one any favours – least of all children

Oct 17, 2018 by Jill

by Julie Lynn, The Conservative Woman:

Who’d have thought that feminism would finally eat itself by way of a movement called transgenderism? Who in their wildest dreams could have foreseen that what would really do for the sisterhood was a theory that any man could become a woman and any boy could become a girl? And as if that were not strange enough, that the whole thing would ironically be played out against a background of pinkness. Sugar and spice and all things nice. Talk about eating itself. Anybody for cake?

Last weekend saw the first episode on ITV of Butterfly, a three-part drama about the impact upon the family when 11-year-old Max decides to become Maxine. The opening titles showed us a bedroom where there were beaded bracelets, nail varnish bottles, lipsticks, hairslides. Oh, and gorgeous pink feather boas hanging up on his/her/their wall. It was a riot of unabashed girliness and prettiness. Essentially, all the stereotyping tropes of so-called femininity that many of us were happy to see consigned to history.

Before long, the young man was asking his big sister what it was like to menstruate and playing football with the extravagantly hirsute dad who was determined to have that proper father-son relationship in spite of the lad’s apparent aversion to the beautiful game. Next up was a scene in an aquarium where an empathic mermaid (doubtless a reference to the controversial trans activism support group Mermaids, whose chief executive was a consultant on the serial) swam up to Max as he pressed his nose against the glass and blew him a kiss.

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Read also: The tyranny of the transgender minority has got to be stopped by Allison Pearson, Telegraph