Disney has reportedly eliminated a storyline a few transgender character from the upcoming Pixar sequence “Win or Lose.”
In a Tuesday article, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the studio had reduce the subplot from the animated sports activities present, which is about to debut on Disney+ on Feb. 19, 2025.
A press release from a Disney spokesperson mentioned, “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.”
“Win or Lose” is a few coed middle-school softball workforce making ready for its little league championship recreation. Every 20-minute episode explores a special character’s life, together with “the insecure kids, their helicopter parents” and “even a lovesick umpire,” in keeping with the present’s official logline.
Based on Selection, “Win or Lose” didn’t embody a full episode concerning the sequence’ transgender character, who will stay a part of the present. Some dialogue referencing gender id was faraway from later episodes of the sequence, nevertheless.
Although the content material change is barely now coming to mild, a supply near the venture instructed THR that Disney had determined to tweak “Win or Lose” “several months ago.”
Disney didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost relating to the change.
Disney and Pixar have already confronted backlash for each together with and eradicating LGBTQ characters and story arcs in current releases.
In 2022, Pixar employees protested after a same-sex kiss was reduce from the “Toy Story” prequel, “Lightyear,” shortly earlier than its launch. The studio ended up backtracking on the edit earlier than “Lightyear’s” debut.
This yr, the corporate reportedly shelved an episode of the Disney Channel animated sequence “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” that centered on a transgender character. A supply at Disney instructed Polygon that the episode had not been “banned” from airing however was being “held.”
