Rent-a-rant gender obsessive invents outrage at gender neutral racoon character in CBeebies favourite ‘Hey Duggee’.
The Telegraph has invented an outrage over the inclusion of a character in the CBeebies cartoon series which did not have any specific gender. In the award winning series Hey Duggee, aimed at five year olds, Duggee’s friend Roly finds out he is going to soon have a brother or sister. The friends meet with various characters to find out what having a brother or sister was like. Eventually the friends meet with a raccoon character called Wren and ‘their’ siblings.
The Telegraph attempts to claim that parents have been outraged over this gender vague character with no evidence whatsoever – apart from comments from trans obsessive Shelley Charlesworth. She claims that the use of gender neutral language was ‘inappropriate’ and that ONE parent has complained. This episode was first shown last year and went completely unnoticed, except by the five year old fans.
The furore has been completely made up by Charlesworth, presumably to justify her existence as a researcher for Transgender Trend, a UK-based campaign group. Checking the favourite haunt for mothers of young children, Mumsnet, there were no comments relating to this in the forums.
While this ‘outrage’ was obvious tripe a BBC spokesperson was polite enough to respond, “We take our responsibility to our young audience and their families very seriously and take great to care that all content is appropriate. Everyone is welcome at CBeebies and in this case Wren the racoon is not a non-binary character.”
The Telegraph went on to own their ‘ignorance badge’ by referring to a criticism of the BBC “In 2023, the BBC was accused of trying to brainwash children after telling them male fish could become female”. There are various fish that can change gender including: Clownfish, Wrasse, Hawkfish, Kobudai, Dottybacks, some Gobies, Damselfish, Blue Ribbon eels, Moray eels and many others.
Perhaps Telegraph journalists should spend less time taking ignorant potshots at the BBC and spend a little time looking at their fantastic content. A good start would be Fish are the sex-switching masters of the animal kingdom
To the Telegraph journalists whose science education finished after Primary School the world must be a bewildering place. Let the BBC educate you.