Reference To Non-Binary Character's Gender Identity Is Edited Out Of Transformers Cartoon On BBC iPlayer

A scene from Transformers Earthspark

Viewers have been voicing their upset after discovering that an episode of the children’s show Transformers Earthspark has had an explicit reference to a non-binary character’s gender identity removed from its broadcast on the BBC.

Last year, the cartoon show aired an episode in the US in which a robot named Nightshade requested that people started using gender-neutral pronouns to refer to them in future.

Elsewhere in the same episode, a human character named Sam told Nightshade...