New BBC drama accused of ‘bending knee to trans cult’

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.”

presents delusion as self-discovery

She added: “It is the same unachievable fantasy that motivates the scandal of child gender medicine”.

Violent

Moore accused the BBC of “pushing the notion of trans identity as fun and ‘culturally significant’”, while “subtly sanctioning the darker side of Lees’s history”.

At 14, Moore explains, Lees — by his own admission — was working as a prostitute, and at the age of 18, “he was convicted of robbery with violence for an attack on an elderly man and sent to prison.

“The man was severely beaten. While inside, Lees began to identify as a trans woman.

“Yet none of this violent history seems to have bothered the BBC. Instead, it’s tying itself in knots over what pronouns it should use to describe Lees.”

Biological reality

She continued: “The Supreme Court ruling that said biological sex is real should have been a wake-up call to the BBC.

“Instead, it has left the BBC and many other cultural institutions reeling, because to question gender ideology in the arts world is to be ostracised and often fired.

“Far from being dissidents, the arts have bent the knee to trans orthodoxy to a sickening degree.”

She added: “Even if Lee’s TV series was commissioned some time ago, there has to be an acknowledgement that times have changed.”