Will trans zealots NEVER let it go? Parents fury as cast member holds up pro-transgender placard during West End production of Disney's Frozen

The West End production of the Disney musical Frozen is facing fury from parents after a member of the cast appeared with a pro-transgender placard.

At the end of Friday night's performance, a male member of the cast walked on stage with a sign that read 'Protect Trans Youth With Your Vote' along with LGBTQ+ bunting, which including the trans flag.

Critics said that the stunt was inappropriate given the number of young children in the audience at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Miriam Cates, the Tory candidate for Penistone and Stocksbridge, said: 'The best way to protect children who identify as "trans" is to keep them away from adults who lie to them by telling them they have been born in the wrong body and encourage them to do irreversible damage to their bodies.'

She added: 'It's concerning that a family performance has been used to push such harmful ideology.

'This Conservative government has ended the use of gender drugs for children and our manifesto pledges to stop children being indoctrinated in schools.

'Sadly a Labour government would make it easier to change gender, putting children at risk.'

Dr Renee Hoenderkamp, an NHS GP and broadcaster, called for a boycott of the show.

On X, she wrote: 'Narcissistic, misogynistic people who have no care or empathy for women or children. Don't go and see this musical.'

One Disney fan branded it a 'disgrace', while another wrote: 'I actually was going to see Frozen. Not now.'

Friday night's show – which starred Samantha Barks, 33, as Queen Elsa – had been billed as a special performance to celebrate gay Pride month.

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy for human rights charity Sex Matters, said it was 'sad' that the show had been 'hijacked' for political purposes.

'Since when did Pride become about electioneering?' she added. 'Gay people can be found at every point on the political spectrum.

'It's doubly inappropriate to proselytise about trans identities to little girls, since in just a year or two they'll be in the group that we know is most likely to get caught up in the trans social contagion: female teenagers.

'It's playing on children's naivety and vulnerability, and it's the opposite of child safeguarding.'

Gender ideology has become a thorny election issue.

Last weekend, the author JK Rowling criticised Labour for 'abandoning' women over its stance on transgender issues.

She has insisted her campaign is not about denying trans people rights but about ensuring that these do not come at the expense of women and girls.

Last year, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said '99.9 per cent of women' do not have a penis and in 2021 stated it was 'not right' for Labour MP Rosie Duffield to say that 'only women have a cervix'.

But he changed his tune during this election campaign, telling BBC Question Time: 'Biologically, a woman is with a vagina and a man is with a penis.'

The Conservatives have said they would change the law to protect single-sex spaces, such as hospital wards, to ban access to those who are biologically male but identify as female.

Labour says such a change is not needed because the Equality Act already protects single-sex spaces for biological women.

A spokesman for Frozen the Musical said: 'A member of the production made a personal statement during the curtain call.

'Our goal is to create productions that are welcoming for everyone, free from personal views.'