CV NEWS FEED // On Easter Sunday, Cartoon Network declared its support for “Transgender Day of Visibility” on social media.
The popular channel – which airs several shows for children – did not acknowledge Easter.
While the world’s nearly two and a half billion Christians celebrated Christ’s resurrection, Cartoon Network instead posted on Instagram: “Affirmations for our trans and gender non-conforming family. You are valid, just as you are.”
The message was accompanied by a graphic depicting a light blue, pink, and white rainbow – the colors of the “transgender” pride flag.
The Daily Wire reported that “the same picture appeared several times in a carousel that included different affirmative captions for each frame.”
Some of these captions included, “I am growing into my fullest self,” “My body belongs to me,” “Only I can decide who I am,” “My identity is a process, not a race,” and “My existence is revolutionary.”
“We’re not doing hate today,” Cartoon Network warned in a comment on their own post. “Be kind or be blocked.”
Cartoon Network also celebrated “Transgender Day of Visibility” last year. The activist-backed event always falls on March 31 – and in 2024 happened to coincide with Easter Sunday.
The Daily Wire noted:
[Cartoon Network], which typically gears the majority of its daytime programming toward an audience of children, has waded into the culture war in the past as well – and has routinely pushed radical gender ideology whenever given the opportunity.
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An episode of “We Baby Bears” that aired just a few months later included a “non-binary inclusive” story line that focused on the usage of preferred pronouns and dropped just in time to coincide with PRIDE Month.
All major cable and satellite television providers offer the channel. In recent years, critics have slammed the same providers for dropping popular conservative-leaning news channels such as One America News Network (OANN) and Newsmax.
Cartoon Network appeared to follow the lead of the Biden administration.
On Good Friday, the White House proclaimed Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility” – also without a single reference to Easter.
“I am proud that my Administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that the LGBTQI+ community can live openly, in safety, with dignity and respect,” wrote President Joe Biden.
“I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my Administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military,” he continued:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility.
Even after critics from across the political spectrum panned his controversial proclamation, Biden doubled down on it two days later.
“On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know,” the president wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Easter Sunday. “Today, we show millions of transgender and nonbinary Americans that we see them, they belong, and they should be treated with dignity and respect.”
Biden is a self-professed Catholic. A heavily scrutinized 2021 New York Times article called him “perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century.”
