Parents outraged by trans film for kids at Museum of Natural History: ‘Should be off-limits’

The Museum of Natural History shocked adjacent wide Upper West Side parents past week by showcasing an animated movie featuring a drag-performing fox and a trans kid with an individuality situation – alongside an grounds “about oversea animals.” 

The eight-minute stop-motion animation abbreviated titled “Dragfox” – featuring a “charismatic” fox successful resistance voiced by Sir Ian McKellen — played past play connected a loop wrong the august Milstein Hall successful the shadiness of the famed 94-foot agelong bluish whale.

In 1 country 11-year-old Sam twirls astir with his sister’s pinkish dress, yet wearing it. The flamboyant fox, “Ginger Snap,” snatches it and breaks into a resistance philharmonic fig arsenic the duo embark connected a “magical journey” successful the attic. 

“What connected Earth is this doing playing successful the Natural History Museum? No transportation whatsoever to space, the ocean, anything,” blasted 1 stunned museum-member ma successful an online parents group.

“There’s a clip and spot for resistance queens but the AMNH isn’t it,” added the ma astir the museum, which received at slightest $17 cardinal successful authorities backing successful 2024, according to its fiscal disclosures.

The ma was galled that the taxable substance “was intentionally placed successful beforehand of us, successful cartoon format, with nary posted forewarning, successful an grounds astir oversea animals.” 

The “family friendly” series, portion of the yearly Margaret Mead Film Festival, was innocuously called “Our Friends, The Animals” and described a postulation of 5 “imaginative” shorts that research “the heavy and often mysterious connections betwixt humans and animals” told done “myth, magic and quiescent moments of discovery.”

De-transitioner Oli London rejected the film’s sentiment that transitioning magically brings happiness.

“Children should not beryllium exposed to sex ideology successful immoderate format,” said London, who’s 35 and detransitioned 2 years aft opening the grueling process. 

He railed against the animated movie aimed astatine “targeting” youngsters by including a quality with a “cute, friendly-looking fox . . . encouraging them to go confused with their sex individuality and go trans. Children should beryllium off-limits from extremist sex ideology.”

Parents accused the depository of straying from its mission to “discover, interpret, and disseminate —through technological probe and acquisition — cognition astir quality cultures, the earthy world, and the universe.”

Instead of knowing science, they’re “ignoring” it by “presenting thing that’s ideological arsenic technological fact,” said Natalya Murakhaver, an UWS mom-of-two and documentary filmmaker, who blasted the screening arsenic “predatory behaviour for young, impressionable children.

“I deliberation we person activists moving the depository who are trying to represent their thought of world arsenic fact, erstwhile it’s really ideological,” she added. 

But “Dragfox” director, Lisa Ott, exulted during a 2024 BAFTA grant acceptance code that the abbreviated “celebrates resistance queens and trans joy.” The singular extremity of the movie was to “have 1 small queer kid oregon trans kid retired determination consciousness a small spot little alone.”

The festival is simply a mode to “step beyond your comfortableness portion to listen, feel, and spot yourself reflected successful the stories presented connected screen,” insisted Jacqueline Handy, the AMNH Director of Public Programs.

It’s much insidious than that, said downtown ma of two, Jacqueline Toboroff. Showing a loaded movie aimed astatine kids is “predatory indoctrination” meant to sow chaos, she said.

“It’s an effort to dislodge American traditions,” said the writer of “Supermoms Activated,” claiming that the absorption connected kid-rich environments – “libraries, schools and museums” – is an “intentional effort to groom these kids. 

“It’s meant to sexually exploit impressionable minds and to mainstream intersexual deviance.”

New York is among the states with the astir gender-affirming care, with 1,154 minors successful the authorities who were sex alteration patients betwixt 2019 and 2023. 

There’s societal contagion being artificially created and “harming a new procreation of kids that can’t flight this ideology,” according to Maud Maron, a parents-rights activistic successful NYC moving connected the Rrepublican summons for Manhattan territory lawyer against Alvin Bragg. 

She added, “You conscionable don’t person a close to propulsion it down New Yorkers’ throats successful taxpayer-funded institutions.” 

The depository said the festival is funded by the New York State Council connected the Arts with enactment of the “Office of the Governor,” but Gov. Kathy Hochul’s spokesperson insisted the authorities stopped straight backing the movie festival successful 2021. “The authorities did not allocate backing for this movie festival and was not progressive successful the curation oregon enactment process,” the spokesperson insisted.

The arts assembly budgeted $25,000 successful capital grants for the depository this twelvemonth and that wealth whitethorn person been funneled towards this year’s festival, said the rep. AMNH did not respond to repeated requests for comment.