Lego Can be Anti-LGBT+, as Can Anything in the Woke Universe! By Mrs Vera West

Now that Australia has effectively eliminated any free speech that counts, offering a legal shield to all Left wing "protected" groups for almost anything, there will be some interesting situations that will arise in the decline and fall of the West. Take Lego for example, which has given hours of joy to children. Yes, but there is a dark side here it is alleged as the Telegraph.co.uk reports:

"Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said.

A self-guided museum tour on "stories of queer communities, experiences and identities" includes a display of Lego bricks alongside a guide stating the plastic blocks may reinforce the idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".

The tour, devised by a Gender and Sexuality Network at the museum, also claims in the"Seeing Things Queerly" guide that Lego adds credence to the view that there are only two genders.

This is because people supposedly describe Lego bricks as having male or female parts that are made to "mate" with each other.

This is "heteronormative", the guide states, which is the idea that "heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual".

The Science Museum guide claims that people think "the top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating".

No source is provided for the alleged view that people consider Lego to be gendered, or that sticking bricks together is called "mating".

The claims have been criticised by the charity Sex Matters, which campaigns to retain women's only spaces and sex-specific services.

Fiona McAnena, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, said: "The Science Museum's self-guided trail on all things 'queer' is completely bonkers, and includes some absurd claims.

"The idea that Lego is 'heteronormative' because the blocks are described as "male" and 'female' is ridiculous.

"Children who play with Lego don't need to be told that some people say fitting Lego blocks together is 'mating'.

"People expect to be informed, educated and inspired when visiting the Science Museum, not to have dubious claims rooted in gender ideology forced on them."

Other stops on the Seeing Queerly tour, advertised on the Science Museum's official website, include a display of the Billy Doll, a toy launched in 1992 that was intended to depict a gay man.

A Spitfire has also been included, because a pilot who flew one of the Second World War fighter planes, Roberta Cowell, born Robert Marshall Cowell, would later have transgender surgery.

Cowell "was the first British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery and change her birth certificate", the guide states.

The self-guided tour, first devised in 2022, makes other claims on the subject of gender and sexuality.

The guide steers visitors to a pair of preserved Seabright Bantam Chickens, a pair bred by scientist Thomas Hunt Morgan chickens to investigate the genetic inheritance of plumage.

He discovered the role of chromosomes in heredity, winning a Nobel Prize.

Visitors are told that "while a biological human female usually has XX sex chromosomes and a biological human male generally has XY" other features mark sex, including "hormones, genitals, and characteristics like depth of voice and hairiness".

It adds that there is "diversity in the presence and combinations of sex-determining features".

The diversity of gender and sexual identity has been controversially covered by the Science Museum in the past.

In 2023, the museum dismantled a trans-inclusive display following complaints it was pushing "propaganda" and not biology.

A cabinet titled Boy Or Girl? displayed quotes describing the transition from the "wrong body" as a "hero's journey", and labels characterising gender as something "difficult to define" which "may not match your biological sex".

The display featured a fake penis and chest-binding equipment.

The Science Museum has launched a separate, volunteer-led tour to mark LGBTQ+ History Month, which runs through February. This tour does not include the Lego bricks.

The Science Museum Group, a family of museums across the country, is led by Sir Ian Blatchford.

The former banker has spoken out against "woke" causes, and in a piece for the Telegraph in 2021, he warned that cancel culture was the enemy of the culture sector, saying museums must "steer clear of political activism".

Lego, founded in Denmark, has campaigned to eliminate what it called gender bias in its products. In 2021, the company pledged to tackle the problem of "age-old stereotypes that label activities as only being suitable for one specific gender."

Well, there goes Lego, at least in Australia, if the lobby is doing their business.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/06/lego-can-be-anti-lgbt-says-science-museum/