The BBC has been accused of trying to indoctrinate young children by telling them that fish can change gender.
CBeebies, its channel aimed at under-sevens, broadcast a segment about how some species can go from ‘being a boy fish to a girl fish’.
The claim has provoked anger among campaigners who fear it was intended to normalise the controversial ideology at an early age – and is in any case inaccurate given that fish do not have a gender identity.
They are also suspicious about the timing of the CBeebies item after the British Museum highlighted fish that are ‘protogynous hermaphrodites’ to coincide with the start of Pride month.
It comes after the BBC was criticised over a pre-watershed episode of Casualty last weekend in which a non-binary character discussed having ‘top surgery’.
