Disney axes transgender storyline from upcoming Win or Lose series: report

Disney has nixed a transgender-oriented storyline from their first Pixar series “Win or Lose” ahead of the show’s premiere, according to a report. “Win or Lost,” a children-targeted animation series set to debut in 2025, follows the members of a co-ed middle school softball team on their road to the championship game.Each episode is a vignette that follows a certain character — with one episode originally featuring the tale of a transgender child.In that episode, references to the child character’s gender identity were removed, according to Variety.The character remains in the show, but several lines of dialogue in other episodes were removed or changed to comport with the top-down edict, The Hollywood Reporter reported.A clip of a storyboard sequence posted to X claims to show the controversial subject matter that was allegedly cut by the mouse house.The sequence shows an apparent girl character entering a bathroom and staring at herself in the mirror.The character then flees the bathroom in the midst of an identity crisis which is resolved, not by her father who calls her on the phone, but by the coach of the softball team.“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,” a Disney spokesperson told the outlet.“Win or Lose” has had its start date pushed back to accommodate the change — now premiering on February 19 of next year.This is not Disney’s first foray into transgenderism controversy.Earlier this year, employees of the show “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” took to social media to call out Disney for banning the release of an episode that focused on a transgender character, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Disney denied that the episode was “banned” and said the decision to pull the episode had nothing to do with the transgender storyline, The Hollywood Reporter said.Pixar found itself in ...