'Q stands for queer': Canada's state broadcaster explains '2SLGBTQQIPAA+' to kids through child reporter

Canada's state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, published a video to its CBC Kids News channel that featured a child actor explaining gender, sexual orientation, and the acronyms that describe different purported sexualities.

The video also featured a gender activist and an assistant professor of a history of gender and sexuality course at a Canadian university.

As reported by True North, the CBC Kids News video features a child reporter named Saba Vahedyousefi, who asked “Have you seen this term? 2SLGBTQQIPAA+. You know what each letter means? Don’t worry, we’ll break it down for you."

The lengthy acronym, which stands for “Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, Asexual, Allies," expectedly included some confusing explanations.

“Q stands for queer. It’s more of a general umbrella term for people with different forms of self-expression,” the child actor explained. She went on to say that the term could actually refer to a person who falls under any one of the other categories.

“By the way, sex and gender don’t mean the same thing,” the child claimed. “Sex refers to the physical characteristics of a person, including the body parts they have.”

While she assured the audience that gender is something that is "assigned" at birth, the young actress also noted, “Gender refers to how a person feels inside. A person can express their gender in different ways. Like with the pronouns they use or the way they dress.”

At this point the video explained some different pronouns that can be used, such as "they/them."

Turning to gender ideology experts, the video asked guests when it would be okay not to write out the gender-spectrum acronym in full. “Some of you may be wondering, this term is pretty long. What if I don’t remember it? And am I supposed to say the whole thing all the time?” the little girl asked.

"If you are in a more formal conversation, if you’re writing a paper, I would try to go for the full," said Alessio Ponzio, an assistant professor of history of gender and sexuality at the University of Saskatchewan. However, Ponzio, whose faculty page lists "He, Him, His" pronouns, decreed that "in regular conversation I think that many, many people are fine also with a shorter version.”

Erin Huston, who works for government- and privately funded gender activist group OK2BME, said that as long as the acronym "starts with like LGBT, that’s fantastic.”

Vahedyousefi is an experienced child actor for an eighth-grader; she has worked for the state broadcaster since 2018. She began reporting for the state in Persian approximately three years after her family moved to Canada from Iran.

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