Five GOP senators try to create a brand new ranking for tv reveals that characteristic LGBTQ+ characters and subjects. The group outlined their reasoning in a letter to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board. For a celebration so hellbent on complaining about cancel tradition, the Grand Old Party appears to be actually obsessive about cancel culture.

The letter, dated May 4, 2022 and addressed to TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board chairman Charles Rivkin, is signed by Republican senators Roger Marshall of Kansas, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana, Steve Daines of Montana, and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.

“Thank you for empowering parents through the provision of tools that enable them to identify television (TV) content that is not suitable for certain ages,” the letter reads. “In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming, including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.”

The senators consult with Disney a number of occasions all through the letter, and specifically cite a New York Post article a couple of current govt at Disney who said that they assist having extra LGBTQ+ inclusion of their firm’s tales. That govt was Karey Burke—who in a video posted on Twitter, championed the elevated illustration of LGBTQ+ lead characters in future firm initiatives.

In the letter, the senators additionally consult with a blog post revealed on American Thinker in April 2022 from an alleged former Disney Channel author below the pseudonym “Stella Paul,” who claims that TV writers are conscious of kids “modeling behavior” from tv reveals, and argues that Disney’s current dedication to LGBTQ+ inclusivity is an encouragement for youngsters to “imitate that behavior.” It’s value reiterating that Stella Paul is a pen title, and whereas they declare to have since left their place on the Disney Channel, they don’t specify which reveals they labored on, nor supply any proof that they ever labored on the firm. We also needs to observe that the senators are attributing a web based journal that’s been recognized to publish unsupported stories on its web site.

“The [TV Parental Guide Monitoring] Board is obligated to ensure the rating criteria helps parents be informed about mature content before it is displayed to their children,” the senators wrote. “In light of parents raising legitimate concerns on sexual orientation and gender identity content on children’s TV shows, we expect the Board to fulfill its responsibility in updating the TV Parental Guidelines to reflect these concerns.”

In spite of all of this, the letter is merely one other battle cry from the Republican Party, who’ve been on the frontlines of their very own warfare towards Disney surrounding the corporate’s feedback on sexuality just lately. Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis efficiently nuked Walt Disney World’s particular self-governing privileges within the wake of Disney pushing again towards the Governor’s extremely controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ invoice.