Posted on 02/08/2025 4:46:01 AM PST by TigerClaws
Lego is anti-LGBT and promotes the idea that there are only two genders, an exhibition at the Science Museum has claimed.
A self-guided tour at the London museum, entitled Stories of Queer Communities, Experiences and Identities says the plastic bricks may reinforce the idea that heterosexuality is the “norm”.
Alongside a display of Lego bricks, it states the public believe that: “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”.
This, the guide says, is heteronormative — a worldview that promotes attraction to the opposite sex above all others. It claims that because the public believe there are only male or female blocks coming together to form a union, genders such as non-binary or gender fluid are discounted. No source or evidence is cited to support these claims.
The museum, which has about three million visitors a year and in 2023-24 was visited by 1,174,000 children under 16, said there are only a “small number” of objects on display.
The tour was put together by the Gender and Sexuality Network, a group of staff and volunteers who say they are “committed to creating more visibility and inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community in the Science Museum”.
The group also set up a trail around the museum called Seeing Things Queerly which runs across three floors and includes the Lego.
Also on display is a pair of Sebright bantam chickens, which helped Thomas Hunt Morgan win a Nobel Prize in 1933 for discovering the role played by chromosomes in heredity.
The exhibition, which has been running since 2022, says: “While a biological human female usually has XX sex chromosomes and a biological human male generally has XY, we now know there is diversity in the presence and combinations of sex-determining features, including variation in sex chromosomes.”
“Some people who have a difference of sex development identify as members of the intersex community. Sex and gender are often used interchangeably, but they mean different things.”
Also included is a Billy doll which it says “was made to help create positive visibility for the gay community and promote safe sex” and a sex-toy shaped item to highlight “the playful attitudes to sexuality” in the 18th century.
Sex Matters, a charity campaigning for sex-specific services, called the exhibition “ridiculous”.
Fiona McAnena, the director of campaigns at the charity told The Telegraph: “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.”
A Science Museum spokesperson said: “This blog post was published online in 2022 to highlight a small number of objects on display at the museum that relate to LGBTQ+ individuals, experiences and communities.”
Lego was contacted for comment.
The Times can shove it up their Lego hole.
Boy I HOPE these people never go away and become leaders in the left wing parties.
It will make winning more and more realistic each time and by wider margins.
The mentally ill at it again
heterosexuality is the “norm”.
You got it . Shake a leg
Surely this is a satire piece akin to The Bee?
I’m hoping Guttfeld picks this up for his show.
Seems like a fit!
4 months ago this would get legs. Or should I say leggos.
OMG it will be hysterical!!
I remember him from his Red Eye show with his “repulsive sidekick”, as Gutfeld called him :)
Forget the sidekick’s name..always liked his show.
I saw this headline somewhere a few days ago and thought must be clickbait cause there’s no way it’s real.
Gender is a language term, with some languages having none, some having two, and some like German having three.
To continue to carp about "gender' shows that biology is no longer an interest to the ideologues pushing the misuse of language by perverting language itself.
I debating putting “(NOT THE BEE”) in the headline here.
Reality overtaking satire...
Should rename it the Gay Science Museum if they’re going to be honest.
“Forget the sidekick’s name..always liked his show.”
Possibly Comedian Tom Shillue? He did the hilarious Adam Schiff impersonation.
“Lego is anti-LGBT and promotes only two genders, says Science Museum”
Not surprising since science itself supports only two sexes.
Lego replied we're putting the pieces together.
Science Museum is anti-science
Helping those with mental problems (”trans” and “non-binary”) feel “normalized”, which they are not.
And people should not be forced to confuse themselves that “trans” and “non-binary” are normal; a lie.
Sympathy and compassion, yes. Accepting a lie, no.
I had to look it up.
Some guy named Bill Schulz.
He was really just there for Greg to abuse.
Says he was let go in 2013.
The show sent back pretty far then.
Now I feel old :)
God forbid they have to plug anything into an electrical wall socket. /massive eyeroll
Shocking, I know.
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