BBC children's chief defends transgender show after Tory MPs call for it to be censored

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/11/02/bbc-childrens-chief-defends-transgender-show-after-tory-mps-call-for-it-to-be-censored/

Pink News/By Nick Duffy  2nd November 2016, 12:20 PM

"The children's show follows 11-year-old Amy on her journey to begin living as female.

The newspaper claimed the show was "'sowing the seeds of confusion" into young viewers' minds and encouraging children to get "sex changes" – even though under-18s do not receive hormones or gender surgery in the UK. Teenagers can receive drugs to delay the onset of puberty, but their effects are entirely reversible."