BBC blasted for 'indoctrinating children' with 'trans bias' as outraged parents call for investigation

Hundreds of parents have claimed the BBC has "damaged their children" with "pro-trans bias". The parents have hit out at the broadcaster, claiming their children are being "drip fed one-sided pro-trans shows".

The Bayswater Support Group, which offers help to parents of children with a transgender identity are urging Ofcom to investigate the BBC's coverage.

Offering her support to the parents, Ms Davies-Arai told GB News: "I'm very glad that the Bayswater parents are taking this to Ofcom, and some of our evidence, the dossier that we compiled, is being used in this case.

"We've been documenting this for 10 years and for more than 10 years, the BBC has been relentlessly promoting a real extreme trans activist message to children through their children's programming, which is what we're mostly concerned with."

Calling for an urgent investigation into children's programming, she added: "I know the wider problem has been exposed in the recent report, but children's programming specifically, I think, demands an urgent investigation of its own.

"Across all of the BBC Children and Education output, this same message has been promoted to children. That you can be born in the wrong body, trapped in the wrong body. That you have a gender identity and this is your authentic self and that you can take puberty blockers to fix yourself. That everybody must use your pronouns, and this is Stonewall message."

Hitting out at the bias as "indoctrination" of children, Ms Davies-Arai stated: "It's not just teaching children an idea or a belief as factual, which is not education, it's indoctrination. But it's not like teaching children the world is flat, it's much more serious than that.

"It's teaching something fundamental about who we are as human beings, whether we're male or female, and children are are being indoctrinated by the BBC and have been for over 10 years."

As host Miriam Cates highlighted that the Bayswater Support Group has made a "number of complaints" to the BBC about this issue that were "ignored", Ms Davies-Arai told GB News: "We have a dossier of emails that we've been sending since 2020.

"Back in 2011 and 2012, two trans activist groups, Trans Media Watch and All About Trans secured meetings with the BBC and Channel 4, and in 2014 they met with the head of Children's which was Joe Godwin at the time, and had actually two meetings in that year with CBeebies and CBBC, the children's channels.

"And one of the first questions they asked of the BBC Children's department was 'there's not enough information put out about trans children. What can we do about that?'"

She continued: "So right from the start, they had these meetings and Susie Green of Mermaids attended that meeting. Susie Green notoriously took her own son to Thailand for genital surgery, which was illegal in this country at the time and is now illegal in Thailand.

"So the most extreme parent in the country was advising the BBC back in 2014, and the BBC took their advice. Now all we were asking for was a similar meeting to present a different point of view and we were continually denied that meeting. We've tried again and again and we want a meeting specifically about children's programming and content for children."

Ms Davies-Arai concluded: "The last time we wrote we included the head of safeguarding, and we did get replies from other people that we'd included in the e-mail, but we never got any reply at all from the head of safeguarding. And our point of view is always that this is a huge safeguarding failure from the BBC, huge failure to safeguard children from a really, really harmful ideology."

In a statement, A BBC spokesman said: "BBC News has taken a number of actions relating to our reporting of sex and gender including updating the news style guide and sharing new guidance, making our social affairs editor responsible for this coverage."