Australian Sky host’s fury as Dutch TV show films adults stripping off in front of children as young as TEN – and episode dedicated to trans bodies
- On Dutch show Simply Naked children as young as 10 shown nude trans people
- Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi slammed the ‘disturbing content’
An Australian Sky News host has furiously branded a Dutch TV show which films adults getting naked in front of children as young as ten as ‘lunacy’ after an episode dedicated to trans bodies.
Talking on her show Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi slammed ‘disturbing content’ on show Gewoon Bloot (Simply Naked in English) where in a recent episode ‘transgender individuals stripped down in front of children’.
The show shows Dutch children aged 10 to 12 the naked bodies of adults so they can ask questions. In this edition of the show, featuring trans people, the children asked about ‘vaginoplasty’ and the double mastectomies.
This comes after similar British show Naked Education, which is broadcast on Channel 4, was hit with nearly 1,000 complaints to Ofcom.
Many viewers were left furious after the show’s debut last week and expressed concern about seeing a group of adults strip naked in front of teenagers.
Talking on her show Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi slammed ‘disturbing content’ on show Gewoon Bloot (Simply Naked in English) where in a recent episode (pictured) ‘transgender individuals stripped down in front of children’
Australian Sky News host Rita Panahi (pictured) has furiously branded a Dutch TV show which films adults getting naked in front of children as young as ten as ‘lunacy’ after an episode dedicated to trans bodies
Children in the audience of Dutch TV show Simply Naked where they look at naked adult bodies
The programme sparked fury online, but now the UK’s broadcasting regulator has received formal complaints about the controversial programme.
READ MORE: Channel 4 ‘body positive’ programme Naked Education which shows adults stripping nude in front of children is hit with nearly 1,000 complaints
Viewers were frustrated over nudity in the show and the fact that the youth participants in the programme were aged 14 to 16.
The Dutch show Simply Naked received criticism before it was first broadcast on March 21, but Netherlands public broadcaster NOS said it was creating the show to promote body positivity and give youngsters a realistic view of the human body.
Host Edson da Graça said: ‘The aim is to teach children that each and every body is different and that not all bodies are perfect.’
In one clip of the show, he said: ‘Today our guests are transgenders, so it’s not just male and female. There’s an entire spectrum of genders besides male and female.’
One transgender person who was on the programme said they felt ‘euphoric’ after their gender reassignment surgery. They said: ‘I woke up and I knew that my breasts were gone. That it looked like I had always wanted it to look. It finally matched the way I felt inside and that made me ecstatic.’
On her show Sky News Australia’s Rita Panahi asked: ‘Why is it necessary to expose children to this and normalise it on television?’
She added: ‘They do try to use so-called diversity and inclusion as a cover for all this lunacy and if you object that’s their defence.
‘ “No, this is just making sure kids aren’t ashamed of their bodies and making sure people come in all different body shapes – and different genders that identify as other genders”.
‘This is going to I think be one of those sleeper issues that people are going to start taking more and more notice of.’
The show shows Dutch children aged 10 to 12 the naked bodies of adults so they can ask questions
Viewers of Naked Education on Channel 4 were frustrated over nudity in the show and the fact that the youths participants in the programme were aged 14 to 16
Many viewers of Naked Education on Channel 4 were left furious after the show’s debut last week and expressed concern about seeing a group of adults strip naked in front of teenagers
Clips of the show shared on Twitter sparked fearsome debate. One user wrote: ‘There is a Netherlands TV show called “Simply Naked” where naked adults present themselves to children.
‘This episode it’s trans adults flashing their… bodies at the kids. HOW THE F*** is this legal?’
However, another Twitter user from the Netherlands defended the show saying: ‘I live in the Netherlands. This is simply one episode of this show. It normalises any naked body and lets children engage with it in an educational way.
‘It doesn’t say anything unsubstantiated by science and you just watched a right wing political ad about it.’
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