"Just add a label"... a pink triangle, perhaps? Labelling undesirable people so they can be shunned has a long and dark history.
We already have labels with a letter in a box or other symbol. They cover the long accepted qualifications for drugs, smoking, sex, violence, etc. This would just be another symbol. No need to "awfulize" the idea.
As a parent and grandparent, I feel that there are certain issues that parents should be permitted to address first and in their desired manner to children. Having a symbol about content about sexuality (as opposed to "sex") helps us decide if a show fits in our schedule for addressing those issues.
In my case, having family members who are in the LGBTQ+ community, it has been important to introduce children and grandchildren to the subject in the context of learning to embrace and understand our relatives. But we want to do it in our way and in accordance with our moral sense and faith.
Carr's "suggestion" only refers to "gender identity", not specifically transgender identity. It is so poorly written that any acknowledgement of the differences between genders could run afoul of it. Better not have a program teaching kids Spanish, a language in which even inanimate objects have gender identities!
I agree that the initial statement is annoyingly vague. In fact, as I think of the way it is expressed, it could be interpreted negatively. More appropriate would be "a symbol indicating the inclusion of scenes, context or content showing or describing LGBTQ+ choices and behaviours". (I don't like the "behaviour" word, but I've been up all night working and can't find a better way of saying that.
It's just as bad as the "Don't Say Gay" bills which attempted to ban any reference to sexual orientation, not realizing that straight people have a sexual orientation, too.
Thinking of what you say here, maybe there should be a single symbol about "sexual preferences" that is separate from "sexual acts" that covers heterosexual behaviours as well.
I recall having put on a "movie about cavemen" with my 4 year old youngest daughter present. I was actually going over some work papers and suddenly realized that one of the cave dwellers was "doing it" with a female cave person who was bent over in a very explicit "humping". It took a great deal of time to explain that adults sometimes showed affection with their partner in different ways... without having to find a Kama Sutra hidden away... that was enough to satisfy curiosity while emphasizing that "kids don't do that" in an understandable way.
Of course, this is a difficult subject. The first thing I would consider is whether this is even needed... and whether putting too much attention to it does more harm than good..
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