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PBS removes drag & trans content after GOP complains about it turning kids queer
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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I want to get grumpy here and say that watching their edutainment documentary on ____ (fill in the blank queer subject because I don't remember the focus), that introduced me to Christine Jorgensen and had clips of her performing made my LIFE! I think they were from the Library of Congress or something, and who the hell knows if they even exist anymore. She did a cover of Welcome to my World that took the tune from a old crooner song to this upbeat fun and flirty jam and it was absolutely mesmerizing. That was just a ten second clip too, but it was so wonderful. I had another grumpy pants moment tonight when I talked about how happy people are post-transitioning and how frustrating it is to me that people can see transjoy and think "I want to smash that." I mean I have met so many transfolx who have this deep seated awful pain that pretty much saps the life from them until they get the right support they need. It's like night and day. I just don't get it. We don't recruit, even though we used to chant it to scare the straights. Really, we just make people more aware of the possibilities of who they could be if they want to be said way. Youth explores, I've known a LUG or three in my lifetime. I think exposure to a wide range of folks in media helps people. I know I was happy the first time I saw someone who looked like me on a TV, and it damn near took 25 years or so to do it. So yeah, it's important. I really hate this happened, but hopefully they've just archived them for later. You can't fuck with the bag in this world.