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.”
Well the good news is broadcast networks are dying and the Republicans don’t want the FCC to have jurisdiction over the internet (they killed net neutrality under the argument the FCC doesn’t have a right to regulate it), so this will mean fuck-all to places like Netflix or HBO and most folks watch stuff on streaming services these days anyway.
Also does this mean any sci-fi shows with alien races who don’t have genders will have warnings? Like it’s just fucking asinine.