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GOP Rep. Demands Netflix Execs Testify Over ‘Demonic’ Pro-Trans Content Marketed To Children
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is calling on House Republican leaders to haul in Netflix executives to testify over a number of children’s shows that promote LGBT and transgender ideology to children.
In a letter addressed to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Burchett expressed his desire to have company executives testify after one of it’s animated children’s shows, “Dead End: Paranormal Park,” came under renewed scrutiny on social media.
The program is marketed as a horror, pro-LGBT show targeted towards children, according to its description on Netflix. The show aired for two seasons before it was not renewed for a third in early 2003.
Episodes of the show have generated controversy among conservatives in the past due to its promotion of transgender ideology and other LGBT themes to minors. Controversy reignited late last month when the popular Libs of TikTok account drew attention to a season 2, episode 9 installment of the program in which the main character goes on a monologue about his transgender identity.
“It’s not the park. It’s me. I’m trans,” the character says. “And everyone at school knows, and everyone at home knows.” The character goes on to describe how the park makes him feel free to embrace his “gender identity.”
“And being here, it’s like a whole new place. I can just be Barney. And I can choose if and when I tell people. I’ve never been happier.”
Libs of TikTok detailed additional children’s programs with similar themes in a series of X posts, prompting thousands of users, including tech mogul Elon Musk, to cancel their accounts.
OMG. Children's @Netflix show "Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City" is promoting transgender drag queens to CHILDREN.
Netflix is grooming kids.
CANCEL NETFLIX pic.twitter.com/zePicP8Fi8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 3, 2025
“We need to get them for the committee and ask them what their intentions are with this and if, in fact, they realize what the heck is going on,” Burchett said of Netflix executives while speaking with Fox News.
“If they don’t come in voluntarily, we ought to subpoena them. Because this is a serious issue. It affects the mental health of our young people, the moral degradation of our society,” he added. “And I would love to sit across the table and ask them some questions.”
In addition to “Dead End: Paranormal Park,” Netflix children’s offerings like “Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City,” promoted transgender drag queens, while the company’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” featured a child actor shaming a doctor for failing to use another child character’s preferred pronouns.
Netflix’s “Transformers: Earthspark,” which is marketed to seven-year-olds, has faced criticism for advancing the term “nonbinary,” while “Monster High: The Movie” features teenage characters discussing their preferred pronouns.
Burchett told Fox News that Netflix executives must answer questions on what he believes is a crucial issue for American parents. “I would hope that Congress could rein these corporate giants in to the fact that they do have to have some moral standards. Spreading this demonic filth to our children is definitely wrong,” the congressman said.
“The transgender issue is a mental health issue, is what it is. I don’t think we should be celebrating or promoting it is very harmful to these folks,” Burchett continued. “The shows that they are targeting for children, for instance, that are showing a little boy becoming a girl, which is biologically impossible… to me, they’re just recruiting or grooming young children.”
