Cartoon Network Moves To Indoctrinate Gender Ideology

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Gender identification has become an enormous fad for the political left over the past couple of years, and the targeting keeps getting younger and younger. This week, Cartoon Network posted a comic strip on their Twitter page, “educating” their audience on the topic.

Two brown colored, non-gender conforming figures tower over a small white girl named Chloe. After informing Chloe their pronouns are “they/them,” she reflects on how she once believed there were only two genders. Chloe quickly accepts this new reality and announces her preferred pronouns.

“When I use my pronouns, I feel respected, safe, and included.”

The Dailywire commentator Michael Knowles referred to the post as “child abuse,” and received some pushback on social media.

Conservatives argue the pronoun/gender debate is important to wage because the issue goes deeper than feeling “respected.” Language is powerful, especially as hate speech laws become more popular on the left. The issue isn’t about being polite when one side asks the government to get involved to trample on your rights.

Professor Jordan Peterson rose to prolific fame after he opposed a bill in Canada (C-16) that would have compelled speech over the use of gender pronouns. He personally isn’t against using preferred pronouns while addressing his students, but he opposes the force by the government.

Joe Biden said on the campaign trail that he’d be committed to passing the Equality Act within the first 100 days of his presidency. It would impact faith adoption agencies, women shelters, and reinstate past Obama-Biden policies of forcing boys who identify as girls to change in girl’s locker rooms.

Gender activists have tried to make the case that gender is different than sex, yet biological occurrences such as having a period and pregnancy, are politicized. You can’t identify your way into having a baby. Either you can biologically do it or you can’t. Author J.K. Rowling has become a villain for trans activists for sticking up for biological realities.

Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard recently received criticism for introducing a bill to protect women’s sports. She noted that denying biological science reality neutralizes the purpose of Title IX, which protected and promoted women being able to compete on an even playing field.

Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage tells heartbreaking stories of harm caused by the transgender craze, and critics have called it “transphobic,” and tried to ban it. Retail giant Target tried to pull it from its shelves but apologized after backlash. Amazon also disallowed ads for the book.

If transgender ideology were merely about the microaggression of being misgendered, it wouldn’t be worth the conversations or propaganda from Cartoon Network. Real policy consequences are being attached to the movement, and the harm of transitioning is hardly discussed in the deserved manner.

The surface goal of Cartoon Network may be to encourage tolerance, but tolerance is a two-way street and relies on voluntary participation. That isn’t happening behind the scenes politically. What happens when a preferred pronoun isn’t respected? Common language from trans activists is: “you’re dehumanizing me” or “denying my existence.” It isn’t healthy or logical to squeeze the entire worth of your being into a word or two. Our society has to be stronger than that.

Parents, more than ever, need to pay attention to what their children are watching and reading.