Elon Musk leads campaign to force Netflix to remove shows with trans characters

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On Monday, Libs of TikTok — the far-right account notorious for stoking violent threats against LGBTQ+ people — erupted over a kids’ show featuring a transgender character. The target was Dead End: Paranormal Park, and the outrage quickly snowballed as conservative influencers seized on other examples of queer and trans representation in children’s and adult programming. Within days, Twitter’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, was leading a boycott campaign against the streaming platform, using his perch to punish it for daring to feature LGBTQ+ characters — representation that reflects the families of millions of kids and, for many, offers a rare lifeline of visibility.

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