Carr Slams House Democrats Opposed to Alerting Parents to LGBTQ Content in Children’s TV Programming

TV Ratings: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is escalating his fight with dozens of House Democrats over LGBTQ content slipped into children’s TV shows. Carr sent a Sept. 22 letter to 68 Democrats who oppose adding gender identity descriptors to the TV Parental Guidelines, arguing that parents should be told when shows rated for young audiences include transgender or nonbinary themes. “Keeping parents in the dark about the nature of these programs is a feature not a bug of the effort,” Carr said. “This is an extreme position, and one that comes on the heels of a sudden surge in children’s television programming secretly promoting gender ideology to young kids without the knowledge or consent of their parents,” Carr said in his three-page letter. (More after paywall)