The FCC wrote in an April 2026 public notice, “Recently, parents have raised concerns that controversial gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children’s programs without providing any disclosure or transparency to parents.” It gave no documentation or number of so-called parents raising these “concerns.”

“Specially,” it continued, “the industry guidelines that parents rely on are rating shows with transgender and gender non-binary programming as appropriate for children and young children, and doing so without providing this information to parents, thereby undermining the ability of parents to make informed choices for their families.”

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    Replace trans with any other identity and you will see how utterly ridiculous this is.
    Imagine if racists started demanding a government-enforced “racial” warning for shows featuring non-whites. That’s how this current era of anti-LGBT bigotry is going to be seen by people in the future, and we should be embarassed to let our society be associated with it.

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      Replace trans with any other identity

      In Muslim countries:
      This TV show contains FEMALE actors, Viewer discretion is advised!!

      In Wyoming and the Vatican:
      This TV show contains CHILD actors, Viewer discretion is advised!!

      In Alabama:
      This TV show contains actors that are family RELATED, Viewer discretion is advised!!

      I think the FCC may be on to something, that these warnings may be necessary.
      /s