Netflix loaded transgender content into 60% of the children's shows it debuted on its platform and labeled all of them safe for young children.
Most parents had no idea.
Now Trump's FCC just did something to the ratings board that the entertainment industry did not see coming.
The Ratings System Was Built to Protect Parents
The TV Parental Guidelines were created in 1997 under congressional pressure, after years of complaints that violent and sexual content was reaching children without warning.
The system worked for a generation.
Then Hollywood quietly changed what it was making – without changing the labels.
By 2023, fewer Netflix children's shows were free of LGBTQ content than contained it.
Fourteen shows with transgender characters, gender non-binary themes, or explicit LGBTQ messaging – rated TV-G or TV-Y, appropriate for young children.
Nine without any of it.
That's a strategy.
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And the TV Oversight Management Board – the private industry group that manages the ratings – never told parents a word about it.
The FCC Is Asking the Right Questions
The FCC Media Bureau filed a formal call for comments this week, and the questions they're asking should make every Hollywood executive nervous.
The agency wants to know if the current rating categories should require disclosure when children's programs contain transgender or gender non-binary content.
It wants to know if faith-based organizations should have seats on the TVOMB board – which currently answers only to the entertainment industry.
And it wants to know if the ratings system should apply consistently across broadcast television, cable, and streaming platforms.
That last question matters enormously.
The FCC has direct authority over broadcast and cable. Streaming has lived in a regulatory no-man's-land, which is exactly how Netflix was able to pour gender ideology into children's programming with zero accountability.
Brendan Carr's FCC is drawing a line.
Daniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights, put it plainly: "The national TV networks and big tech companies are conspiring to indoctrinate our kids in woke ideology through media, and they're doing it behind the backs of parents."
He's right.
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Industry self-regulation only works when the industry shares the values of the families it serves.
Hollywood has made very clear it doesn't.
This Is Bigger Than a Label Change
The 1997 ratings system was born because Congress threatened a mandate and the industry blinked first.
Brendan Carr is running the same play.
The comment period is step one. It creates a public record.
It lets parents testify about what their kids were exposed to. It builds the case that TVOMB failed its own mission.
If the industry stonewalls, Carr has the authority to declare that the current system no longer serves the public interest – and mandate changes directly.
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Hollywood has seen this movie before.
Last time, they wrote their own rules to stay ahead of Washington.
This time, Washington already knows what the rules need to say.
Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project credited Carr for spotlighting the issue.
Parents have been sending their kids to bed trusting that a TV-G rating meant something. Hollywood decided it didn't.
Brendan Carr just decided that's not their call anymore.
Sources:
- Sean Moran, "FCC Considers Updating TV Rating System to Warn Parents About 'Gender Identity' in Children's Shows," Breitbart News, April 22, 2026.
- Concerned Women for America, "LGBTQ+ Messaging in Netflix Children's Programming," CWA Report, 2025.
- American Principles Project, Terry Schilling statement via X, April 2026.