Transparent PropagandaOnce trusted storytellers now pose an active threat.
Jonathon Van Maren
May 2, 2023
It took the gay rights movement decades to gain domination of the entertainment world. The transgender activists who were right at their heels made much shorter work of it. Hollywood transitioned in scarcely a decade, with every TV genre—including and perhaps especially children’s entertainment—pushing transgender storylines.
This potent propaganda is accomplishing two primary goals: the normalization of gender ideology in all its forms and the demonization of dissidents who oppose it. In just a few short years, our culture’s most powerful storytellers have enlisted in the service of the trans movement. Consider a few recent examples.
In 2022, director Billy Porter (a gay man renowned for dressing in drag) released the coming-of-age romantic comedy Anything’s Possible. It is a standard, cheesy teen rom-com with an angsty pop soundtrack—except for the fact that Kelsa (whose name means “brave”) was born male and now identifies as a “trans girl.” Kelsa looks like a girl, too, and Khal, her classmate, falls hopelessly in love. He watches Kelsa’s YouTube videos about going on puberty blockers and transgender experiences and decides—like the open-minded protagonist that he is—that none of that matters. Gender itself doesn’t matter. They are just two teens falling in love, and anything’s possible.
It is more complicated, of course. References are made to the fact that Kelsa’s body isn’t female, but that is dismissed out of hand as irrelevant to love (although not, presumably, to love-making). The film is a powerfully normalizing piece of LGBT propaganda in large part because Kelsa is played by Eva Reign, a biological male who “transitioned” at a young age and can very much “pass” as female.
Just as teen transgenderism is normalized, opponents of transgender ideology are demonized. When Kelsa is briefly barred from the girls’ bathroom, it is portrayed as a bigoted attempt to tar a transgender person by exploiting unreasonable fears. Those who refuse to use Kelsa’s “preferred pronouns” are portrayed as vile, “illiterate” people who merely wish to cause unnecessary pain. A mother who objects to Kelsa using the girls’ bathroom, presented as a loudmouthed bigot, is told bluntly: “You are a danger to your daughter with that attitude.” The scene ends with her own daughter telling her, “I don’t think like you,” and storming out.
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It isn’t just entertainment aimed at adults and teens that has transitioned in recent years. Blue’s Clues, an animated show for preschoolers that first launched in 1996, released a “Blues Clues Pride Parade Sing-Along” in 2021, which featured a cartoon drag queen, a gay dolphin, a transgender beaver with chest scars from a double-mastectomy, and a panoply of queer and “non-binary” characters. Mr. Ratburn, the teacher in the beloved kids show Arthur, was shown marrying a man in a 2019 episode. The Clifford the Big Red Dog franchise was rebooted with lesbian moms. The popular children’s show Peppa Pig aired an episode with lesbian polar bears.
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If trans activists have their way, not a single children’s franchise will be left untouched. Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has multiple transgender characters, and Amazon Prime’s Danger & Eggs has a “trans girl” and a “non-binary character.” PBS’s Sesame Street has featured a Drag Queen Storytime, starring Billy Porter. Disney has debuted several transgender characters.
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/transparent-propaganda/
