For a billion-plus dollars a year, Australian taxpayers probably expect not to be lied to their faces about trans grooming being beamed into their living rooms. As groomers will, the ABC boss and Greens senator Sarah “Sea Patrol” Hanson-Young deflected and dissembled when the grooming agenda was brought to public attention.
The ABC’s managing director has been forced to defend programming amid a clash during Senate Estimates hearings on Tuesday over a drag actor’s storytime show for children.
Never mind the basic question of why drag performers feel such a driving need to get access to children — the material in the show carried a plain agenda.
The program in question, stars actor Shane Jenek reading from a children’s book called The Spectacular Suit, about a female child wanting to wear male clothing. The program was rated G and has been heavily promoted on television and on the app.
“Why is the ABC grooming children with this sort of adult content?” Senator Alex Antic asked.
[David Anderson] rejected the idea that the show was about grooming children, saying that is was “reading from a book that is about dressing up”.
Except that that’s not what the book is really about. That didn’t stop him lying about it, though.
Mr Anderson agreed that transgender issues, when “people that wish to identify as a sex other than what they were born as”, involved adult concepts.
However, he said he did not accept what Senator Antic was suggesting about the storytime show.
“You are saying about somebody who is trans grooming Australian children,” he said. “That’s not, that whole story time was not about that, it was about dressing up.
The Australian
In fact, the book is unapologetically about “adult concepts” such as “people that wish to identify as a sex other than what they were born as”.
Its own blurb on Amazon is quite explicit about its agenda:
“The perfect gift for […] children who don’t identify with traditional gender roles
Wonderful conversation starter for teachers and librarians to explore gender and identity with age-relevant material from #ownvoice creators
Would suit fans of Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love and When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita”
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The latter’s blurb says it is about “a transgender boy’s life, from his initial coming-out”. Both of the them are explicit transgenderism primers. So is the trash the ABC would have us believe is just about harmless dress-ups.
Of course Hanson-Young chimed in and continued peddling the misdirection.
Senator Hanson-Young interjected, saying that Senator Antic’s comments were deeply offensive.
“You mean young girls wearing pants? Seriously,” she said. “Heavens above – girls wearing pants. That is the level of rubbish you are putting forward.”
Senator Antic told Senator Hanson that she was welcome to leave if she was offended by the truth that the “ABC is grooming our children.”’
The Australian
Senator Hanson-Young said that grooming was a serious matter.
Yes. Yes, it is: and as we see, the Greens and the ABC are very, very serious about grooming children.
Then there is the host: a drag queen who once exposed himself on British national television.
The ABC has long-running form, here, after all. Even back in the 70s, the ABC hosted a show that pandered sycophantically to a panel of open paedophiles. When challenged about it, the ABC chairman of the time airily replied that “in general, men will sleep with young boys”.
Not in the circles I, and I suspect most of you move in. Perhaps such things are simply taken for granted at the ABC.