A British television show aimed at teaching children “all about body positivity” recently featured two trans-identified females showing off their mastectomy scars, and one showing off a surgically created “neo-penis” fashioned from the skin and flesh of the individual’s forearm.
Channel 4’s Naked Education claims to be “on a mission to normalize all body types, champion differences, and break down stereotypes,” but the show’s producers made the bizarre decision to showcase two individuals who felt it necessary to surgically alter their bodies in order to conform to stereotypes.
Finlay Games and Lucian Main began by showing off their scarred chests, with their medically unnecessary bilateral mastectomies being referred to euphemistically as “top surgery.” Then it comes time for the reveal of Finlay’s “neo-penis.”
Phalloplasty surgery involves a surgeon stripping the skin and flesh of a woman’s forearm or thigh and using the tissue to create an appendage resembling a penis. The surgery is extremely complex and comes with an extraordinarily high complication rate. None of this information is conveyed during the episode aimed at educating children about body acceptance.
When asked if the penis “works,” Finlay assured Lucian that it does, and then goes on to explain that there’s a pump device within that looks very much like a deflated balloon.
“Then I have a saline solution in my abdomen in a little kind of reservoir, and in this testicle, I have a pump, and when I pump, the saline solution goes through and into my penis and gives me an erection and then I have a button there to let it back out again,” explains the naked trans-identified female, as the camera zooms in so nothing is left to the imagination.
The narrator then informs the target audience of young people that during the surgery, nerves were taken from the forearm and joined up with those in the pelvis with the aim of providing the penis with full sensation.
Finlay assures viewers that orgasm is achievable “in the same way as any ‘cis’ male.”
“I can pee, get an erection, have pleasure, have sex. It’s fantastic,” said Finlay.
Malcolm Clark, a science documentary producer, took to Twitter to call out the “trans propaganda” he believes the show is pushing onto impressionable young people.
Clark points out that while the show’s presenter mentioned Finlay undergoing six surgeries, there was no mention that so many were necessary due to serious complications. Also not mentioned was Finlay’s lengthy battle with depression as well as concerns that Finlay’s chronic health problems are due to prolonged testosterone use.
“What hypocrisy for Channel 4 to make a fuss about being honest about our bodies and then present such a one-sided and therefore dishonest portrayal of Finn's story. They claim honesty about our bodies will help young people. So won't this sort of dishonesty harm them?” Clark tweeted.
Therapist James Esses called out the “utter inconsistency” of the show.
“[T]eaching young people that the answer to accepting oneself is to fundamentally change oneself through irreversible surgery is both utterly inconsistent and dangerously disingenuous,” wrote Esses in The Spectator.
The first two episodes of the show had already been met with enormous backlash, with the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom receiving 1,297 complaints about the concept of exposing teenagers to naked adults, reports Yahoo.
UK media regulator Ofcom has received 1,297 complaints about the controversial body image show, as anger grows at a format that parades naked adults in front of young teenagers.
The channel's chief content officer, Ian Katz, said that the show was about confronting body image anxiety and was a “valuable public service broadcasting.”
“The show counters the dangerous myths and toxic images that teenagers are bombarded with by exposing them to real, normal bodies and engaging them in an open, safe conversation about them,” Katz tweeted.
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