The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) has come under fire for a programme aimed at prepubescent children which claimed that there are “over 100” gender identities.

The film, entitled Identity – Understanding Sexual and Gender Identities, is currently being presented on the publicly-funded broadcaster’s ‘Teach’ website and is aimed at children between the ages of nine and 12 years old.

The programme says that becoming transgender is a means by which children can become “happy” and that supposedly different gender identities include “gender-queer”, “pansexual”, and “bi-gender”, the Daily Mail reported.

At one point during the film, a pupil is seen asking a Relationships and Sex Education teacher: “How many gender identities are there?”

The teacher replies: “There are so many gender identities. So we know we have got male and female, but there are over 100 if not more gender identities now.”