The BBC have been criticised for aiming a show about a transgender kid at children as young as six (Picture: CBBC)

The BBC has been criticised for aiming a show about a transgender kid at children as young as six.

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Furious parents say the CBBC show was inappropriate for children as it depicts an 11-year-old’s battle to get hormones to stop puberty.

In the 30-minute programme, a young girl called ‘Amy’ reveals she was born a boy called Ben.

She says: ‘When I was born, Mum said Dad was so pleased that he had a boy to take to the football. But Mum knew I was different. She realised early on that I was born in the wrong body.’


‘My Mum supported me when I did a PowerPoint presentation to my class about transitioning and that I wasn’t going to come to school in boys’ clothes any more, but girls’ clothes. I wasn’t Ben, I was Amy.’



Parents say the target audience is too young while campaigners have said it could ‘sow the seeds of confusion’ in children’s minds.

One mum on Mumsnet said her young daughter, who liked wearing boys’ clothes and playing football, asked her afterwards if it meant she was a boy.

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The show is called Just a Girl and is available on the CBBC website (Picture: CBBC)

Another added: ‘Don’t think this is remotely suitable for a seven-year-old. To start suggesting that children can be transgender when they’re far too young to actually have a gender is reckless and damaging.’

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Tory MP Peter Bone said the show ‘beggars belief’ and called for it to be taken down from the website.

He told Daily Mail: ‘I entirely share the anger of parents who want to let children be children

‘It’s completely inappropriate for such material to be on the CBBC website and I shall be writing to BBC bosses to demand they take it down.’

While family campaigner Norman Wells told the paper: ‘It is irresponsible of the BBC to introduce impressionable children as young as six to the idea that they can choose to be something other than their biological sex.’

A BBC spokesperson said the programme is ‘about a fictional transgender character trying to make sense of the world.’

‘CBBC aims to reflect true life, providing content that mirrors the lives of as many UK children as possible.’

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