Disney cuts another transgender storyline
Disney has cut yet another transgender storyline from its content.
The woke entertainment giant has deleted lines referencing “gender identity” from an episode of “Win or Lose,” an animated Pixar series scheduled to air next year. The show, which follows a co-ed middle school softball team, features a character in one of the episodes who identifies as transgender. Though the character will remain, an executive confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday that gender identity will not be referenced out of respect for parents.
“When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline,” the executive said.
The move is surprising for Disney, which is known for aggressively targeting its young viewers with gender propaganda. In a March 2022 video posted by journalist Christopher Rufo, Disney Television Animation Executive Producer Latoya Raveneau admitted to embedding a “not-so-secret gay agenda” in children’s programming and “adding queerness” wherever she could. Disney has donated millions to “LGBTQ+” causes and ignited a feud with the State of Florida over a bill that prohibits teachers from discussing their sexual preferences with school children.
Not the first time
Perhaps even more surprisingly, this is not the corporation’s first such decision. Last month it was reported that Disney had also shelved an episode of the animated children’s show “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” because it contained a transgender plotline. The episode featured Brooklyn, a transgender teen volleyball player who claims to be a girl. Brooklyn has Pride flag kneepads and a trans sticker on his water bottle. When he visits the high school of the main character Luna Lafayette, he tries to join the girls’ team but is stopped by an evil trans-hating coach who uses a magical key to lock him up.
As with “Win or Lose,” a Disney source confirmed that the “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” episode was cut from the 2025 schedule to be “respectful of the role that parents play in the discussions they have with their children.”
It is unclear who made the decision, which did not sit well with other Disney employees.
“Disney should be ashamed of themselves for canning this episode,” Emmy Cicirega, a storyboard artist on several Disney shows, wrote on X. “You don’t get to approve approve approve something and then destroy it at the last minute, shattering the crews [sic] hard work and hopes.”
Matt Braly, creator and executive producer of the Disney series “Amphibia,” responded to Ciciriega’s post saying the episode had already been approved by the company’s Standards and Practices Department (S&P), which reviews content for compliance with ethical, moral, and legal standards.
“If an episode got this far, it was approved multiple times by multiple divisions, only to suddenly be struck down at the last second? Total break down of process and spitting on your team’s careful/thoughtful work. S&P approved this ep. It was good to go,” he said, adding in a second post: “The action being preemptive makes it so much worse to me. The absolute cowardice and second guessing when actually this is when this content is needed most.”
