A popular new Netflix series available on children’s platforms includes a young transgender character and promotes the idea that gender can change.
The live-action original series, The Baby-Sitters Club, is rated TV-G and follows the story of five middle-school girls who launch a babysitting business. It is based on a collection of Scholastic books.
In episode 4, Mary Anne – one of the five sitters – is asked by a child’s mother to keep a little girl named Bailey.
Mary Anne and Bailey hold a tea party in Bailey’s room, and when Bailey spills water on her pink dress, Mary Anne opens the little girl’s closet to get a change of clothes. But she only finds boys’ clothes.
“Those are my old clothes,” Bailey tells a surprised Mary Anne.
Mary Anne then tells the viewer: “That’s when I understood: Bailey was a little girl and her new clothes help people see it.”
The series, which was listed in Netflix’s 10-most popular titles Thursday, is available on children’s profiles. The transgender angle forms the core of episode 4. Bailey was played by actor Kai Shappley, a 9-year-old biological boy who identifies as a girl.
Seconds after Mary Anne discovers Bailey is a biological boy, the episode switches scenes, and viewers see Mary Anne talking about the situation to her new friend, Dawn, whose father is gay. Dawn helps Mary Anne understand Bailey.
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