A central Season 1 episode centers on babysitting a transgender child (Bailey, played by trans actor Kai Shappley), with the babysitter enforcing pronouns and framing acceptance as a rights issue rather than organic story. Additional LGBTQ+ elements include gay dads, lesbian relationships among adults, and characters expressing fluid or label-free orientations.

Themes explicitly push intersectional feminism, socioeconomic critiques, menstruation normalization, and challenges to traditional family/gender norms, often positioning the girls as progressive correctives to adult conservatism. Creator Rachel Shukert collaborated with GLAAD to shape LGBTQ content for young viewers and emphasized modernizing for inclusion and activism.

Targeted at impressionable children, these elements drive multiple plots and the show's updated appeal, drawing conservative backlash for injecting propaganda and prioritizing messaging over fidelity to source material. The ideology is not incidental but foundational to the reboot's premise and execution.