A city councillor and longtime supporter of public transit has quit the London Transit Commission board over bus advertisements featuring pop star Katy Perry.

The Virgin Radio ads, showing Perry wearing a cone bra equipped with whipped-cream canisters, objectifies women and is part of the unrelenting sexualization of children, Ward 14 Coun. Sandy White said Wednesday.

Perry’s performances and videos are laden with sexual content, and much of Perry’s fan base is made up of pre-teen girls.

“I know I run the risk of being targeted as being a prude, but I’m prepared for that,” White said. “This isn’t inside the washroom of a bar. This is on the side of a bus. This is a family service.”

White said she first learned of the advertisement on the outside of buses when a father called to complain,

“The first time I looked at it I was shocked. I thought it was inappropriate.”

White expressed her opposition to the advertisement to the LTC, as did about 100 of 300 members of Local 741 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, who signed a petition calling for the end of the ad campaign.

The union said LTC employees found the ad offensive to the women and children who take the bus. Drivers were embarrassed to drive the buses with the ad, and the campaign incited sexual harassment of drivers, the union said.

The LTC did nothing, and made no attempts to alter its ad policies, White said. The contract for the advertising campaign ran its course soon after the protests.

“I don’t feel that I can support this. It is contrary to the work I do every day of my life,” said White, who works with the Children’s Aid Society. “I’ve worked 20 years to end family violence and child abuse.”

Her resignation was effective Monday and received by the LTC board Wednesday.