Children’s drawings and paintings of rainbows have been springing up in windows across the UK after a heartwarming trend started online. Hundreds of schools encouraged their pupils to join in and “spread hope” to those unable to leave home during the pandemic, and the trend was spread further on social media with the hashtags #FromMyWindow and #ChaseTheRainbow. This didn’t go down well with one commenter on the parenting forum, who urged fellow parents not to allow their children to take part because of the rainbow’s trans-inclusive message. In a post entitled “Please don’t put a rainbow in your window,” Mumsnetter RuffleCrow wrote: “For the past few years the rainbow has sadly become a symbol of silencing, sexual stereotyping and oppression for a lot of women and those in the LGB community.