Sen. Josh Hawley demands Netflix remove trans content since it doesn't align with his personal values "It offends me" [View all]

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GOP senator demands Netflix remove trans content since it doesn’t align with his personal values
“It offends me,” he said.

Vehemently anti-trans Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) went on a bizarre and inaccurate rant about trans representation on Netflix during an antitrust hearing about the company’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets.

Hawley peppered Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos with questions about why the streaming platform provides “content for children [that] promotes a transgender ideology.”

He claimed “almost half” of Netflix content for young children “promotes a transgender ideology agenda,” a phrase he most likely used to mean the inclusion of a trans character or the mention of being trans. Nevertheless, Sarandos said he didn’t “have any idea where that number would come from” and called the statistic “inaccurate.”

Hawley did not offer a source for his data, but he may be referring to a report from the anti-LGBTQ+ group Concerned Women for America (CWA) that claimed “41% of G-rated series, and 41% of TV-Y7-rated series on Netflix contain LGBTQ+ content.” Even if that were true (though it should be questioned based on the clear bias of the organization), the phrase LGBTQ+ implies representation of a wide variety of identities, not specifically trans characters.