Why is it that so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology? Almost half of your content for ch I'm talking about minor children now. I'm not talking about teenagers.
Minor children promotes a transgender ideology agenda. I was just looking at the data here from your various serious various series. And what concerns me is just two days ago, a jury in New York awarded a former transitioner $2 million because she said that her psychologists and others pressured her into they pushed on her a an ideology that proved to be extremely detrimental.
I'm sure you know that in the UK, the National Health Service in the UK has said that they're not going to perform transgender surgeries or any longer so-called gender affirming care for minors, including in counseling, because it is so incredibly detrimental. Our own HHS has come forward with similar findings this past year. Yet, if you turn on Netflix, you'll find that an enormous amount, and I say this as a parent with three young children, an enormous amount of your children's programming has this ideology and agenda in it.
Is this an advocacy position for Netflix? Are you is this a is this an ideological commitment you have? I mean, why is this, >> Senator Ali?
Netflix has no political agenda of any kind. I would tell you that. >> Well, then why is your children's program so full of this highly sexualized, highly controversial, highly controversial agenda?
I don't I don't I don't understand it. It seems strange to me. >> Um, respectfully, sir, it's because it's inaccurate.
We have millions of hours of children's programming. I get >> You're saying it's not there. You You don't You don't have trans You don't feature trans characters, trans story lines, trans themes.
I'm saying it's not in your programming. I'm saying we feature a wide variety of stories and programs to meet a wide variety of people's tastes. >> Why is almost half of it Why does half of your children's program feature this highly controversial, highly sexualized material?
Why? That that just seems strange to me. Is it can't possibly be a reflection of the population.
>> Senator, I don't have any idea where that number would come from or what that would be. I don't believe that's been your personal experience, but I I don't I can't speak to that. >> Well, what do you mean you don't think it's been my personal experience?
You don't think that I monitor what my children watch on your Here's what I tell you what my personal experience is since you bring it up. My personal experience is that my three children, I can't let them watch anything they want on Netflix. I can't let them watch anything on Netflix unless I preview it because I don't have confidence in what's on your platform.
I don't know what they're going to encounter. And I tell you what, I don't want my kids being pushed an agenda about their sexuality or gender identity when I have not had the opportunity first to discuss it with them and to form them in that. And I frankly on behalf of parents around the country, it offends me that Netflix is pushing this content at parents in what seems to be a very coordinated, thought through, planned out agenda in a way that frankly I think undermines parents.
Certainly undermines me and my wife. We have to watch every show beforehand before we can let our kids watch it. Now, I don't know.
That seems pretty concerning to me. I know you make a gob of money on it and maybe that's the answer but I just seems to me that it's a disservice to the parents of this country particularly given what's happening with our youth on this subject. So I don't know if I may answer the like I said we have millions of hours of content on on Netflix at any given time.
We have state-of-the-art tools for you to manage those choices for your children and to block any title that you might be offended by for any reason. So this this is we we are parents at Netflix as well. We share all your concerns about raising kids and also the ability to raise them as you see fit in your household and anyone else's household as well.
My concern is is that you don't share my values or those of many other American parents and you want the United States government to allow you to become one of the largest, if not the largest streaming monopolist in the world. I think we ought to be concerned about what content you're promoting.
