Science museum claims Legos push a 'heteronormative' agenda in LGBTQ tour

Britain’s Science Museum has argued that the mode children’s Lego bricks acceptable unneurotic reinforces sex and sexuality stereotypes.

The Science Museum successful the United Kingdom has precocious made headlines for its self-guided circuit that tells "stories of queer communities, experiences, and identities." This "Seeing Things Queerly" circuit astatine the depository claims that Legos propulsion a "heteronormative" agenda.

"Like different connectors and fasteners, Lego bricks are often described successful a gendered way," the online blog for the self-guided circuit says. "The apical of the ceramic with sticking retired pins is male, the bottommost of the ceramic with holes to person the pins is female, and the process of the 2 sides being enactment unneurotic is called mating."

The circuit usher blog adds further, "This is an illustration of applying heteronormative connection to topics unrelated to gender, enactment and reproduction. It illustrates however heteronormativity (the thought that heterosexuality and the male/female sex binary are the norm and everything that falls extracurricular is unusual) shapes the mode we talk astir science, technology, and the satellite successful general."

Close-up of a ample fig of LEGO bricks, Pleasanton, California, August 18, 2024. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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The Telegraph, which resurfaced this tour, which appears to person begun successful 2022, connected Thursday, reported, "No root is provided for the alleged presumption that radical see Lego to beryllium gendered, oregon that sticking bricks unneurotic is called ‘mating.’"

Fiona McAnena, the manager of advocacy astatine Sex Matters, scorched the show arsenic "bonkers."

"The Science Museum’s self-guided way connected each things ‘queer’ is wholly bonkers, and includes immoderate absurd claims. The thought that Lego is ‘heteronormative’ due to the fact that the blocks are described arsenic ‘male’ and ‘female’ is ridiculous," she told The Telegraph. "Children who play with Lego don’t request to beryllium told that immoderate radical accidental fitting Lego blocks unneurotic is ‘mating.’ People expect to beryllium informed, educated and inspired erstwhile visiting the Science Museum, not to person dubious claims rooted successful sex ideology forced connected them."

Lego besides sells an LGBTQIA+ playset called "Everyone is Awesome" with Lego minifigures lasting successful beforehand of a rainbow including the assorted colors of the LGBTQIA+ flag. 

Lego store (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

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Matthew Ashton, the Vice President of Design astatine the LEGO Group, designed it himself, and explained that helium did so with resistance queens, the Black community, and transgender radical successful mind.

"It sends a almighty message, but it is besides amusive and quirky and doesn’t instrumentality itself excessively seriously," helium said. "We’ve made definite to see achromatic and brownish colors to correspond the wide diverseness of everyone wrong the LGBTQIA+ community. We’ve besides added successful the airy blue, achromatic and pinkish to enactment and clasp the trans assemblage arsenic well. I purposely enactment the purple resistance queen successful arsenic a wide motion to the fabulous broadside of the LGBTQIA+ community. I anticipation it’s a joyousness to physique and a joyousness to look at, and hopefully it volition bring a batch of joyousness to people’s lives."

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Lego has besides waded into sex authorities before. In 2021, the institution released a connection expressing interest that girls "remain held backmost by society’s ingrained sex stereotypes arsenic they turn older," and has a lengthy introduction connected its website connected "How eliminating sex bias tin physique assurance and creativity."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to some the depository and the Lego institution for remark and did not person an contiguous reply.