GOP Senators Call For Warning Label On "Disturbing" LGBTQ Content In Kids' TV Shows [View all]

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GOP Senators Call For Warning Label On “Disturbing” LGBTQ Content In Kids’ TV Shows

Tom Tapp
Deputy Managing Editor
May 6, 2022 12:40pm

A group of Republican senators is calling for a TV ratings system to warn parents about LGBTQ content in children’s programs. Their statement singles out Disney repeatedly.

GOP Senators Roger Marshall (Kan.), Mike Lee (Utah), Mike Braun (Ind.), Steve Daines (Mont.) and Kevin Cramer (N.D.) sent a letter to Charles Rivkin, Chairman of the TV Guidelines Ratings Board — the entity that manages and monitors the designations on programs such as TV-Y, TV-14, TV-MA, etc.

The missive begins, “In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming, including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.”

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The letter casts suspicion on “the motivations of hyper-sexualized entertainment producers” who, the letter says, are “striving to push this content on young audiences,” calling those motivations “suspect at best and predatory at worst.”

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Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/05/gop-senators-lgbta-tv-ratings-kids-1235018212/