BBC Censors Non-Binary Mention In Transformers Earthspark Cartoon
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The BBC channel CBBC has censored a mention of a character being non-binary in the Transformers Earthspark cartoon during Pride Month.

With all the news about the BBC censoring a “Protect the Dolls” t-shirt, it’s sad to see how this transphobic trend goes back years. The BBC is literally participating in trans erasure.

    • viJilance@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      It was barely a thing in the 80s if at all, before it was used as a propaganda tool to brainwash children.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      The first one I checked seemed to be a character with no confirmed gender. That seems a bit misleading.

      Which character from the 80s is actually non-binary?

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
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          3 days ago

          I really want this to be true, but I’m not seeing it. The page has a note near the top:

          Exactly who—and even what—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.

          The text “male” only appears in the word “malevolent”. The text “binary” only appears in the link to the parent category “Non-binary” characters, so it doesn’t seem like this is actually a non-binary (or similar) character.