Whenever the first Trump administration made noises about defunding public media (in its 2017 and 2018 budget proposals, for instance), including National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the congressionally founded tax-funded entity ostensibly in charge, would respond by emphasizing how PBS benefits kids. This statement from PBS CEO Paula Kerger in February 2020 bragged:
Decades of research confirms that PBS’s premier children’s media service, PBS KIDS, helps children build critical literacy, math and social-emotional skills, enabling them to find success in school and life.
But must PBS’s educational support for children also include transgender and gender-identity propaganda?
PBS has run plenty of stories on its evening broadcast encouraging transgender treatments and surgery and…
