BBC adds two childless drag queens to list of ‘inspirational mums’ on children’s website for International Women’s Day
The BBC has been branded “tragic” after including a pair of drag queens on a list of “inspirational mums” on a children’s website for International Women’s Day.
CBeebies, which boasts a target audience of 0-6-year-olds, has published a list of mothers for the day, including Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou and Holly Willoughby.
It also includes a profile of Sojourner Truth, who “made history by becoming the first black woman to win against a white man in court”.
However, CBeebies also hails Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera as “revolutionary LGBTQ+ rights activists” who “mothered the Star [Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries] House in New York”.
Johnson and Rivera were considered the “mothers” of the “house” – a political collective which they funded through sex work.
The CBeebies website details how the pair were “transgender drag queens and ‘drag mothers’ to the Star House” and “provided a home, food, clothing and a sense of family to many LGBTQ+ kids made homeless by their biological families”.
Both of the duo were born male, and neither had children.
The website carries the hashtag “EveryMumWelcome” – but the inclusion of the trans pair has sparked outrage from gender-critical groups and MPs.
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Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at human rights charity Sex Matters, told GB News: “This endless promotion of men under the banner of women and motherhood is a long way from the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
“It’s tragic to see a once-trusted organisation replacing accurate information with transgender propaganda.”
While Tory MP Neil O’Brien said on social media: “I love CBeebies – but given it is aimed at those under six, it is bizarre for their list of ‘inspirational mums’ to include two male drag queens who were not mothers.
“Whatever the legacy of ‘Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries’, this is not appropriate.”
Meanwhile, journalist and former chairwoman of feminist group Chelt Fems Jo Bartosch wrote in Spiked magazine that the BBC’s “hagiographers” were “reshaping history to fit their ideological worldview”.
“The idea that these men were maternal figures can only make sense to the sort of fool who thinks Hamas only gets a bad rep because of ‘Islamophobia’,” Bartosch added.
“This CBeebies incident marks a bizarre new low. When the BBC is directing trans propaganda at children, recasting transvestite prostitutes as loving mothers, it is waving a womanly willy in the face of every licence-fee payer.”
GB News has approached the BBC for comment.