An upcoming Pixar vivaciousd television series will no lengtheneder join a transgender teenager after Disney deleted dialogue that referenced the character’s gender identity.
Win or Lose, which will commence on Disney+ in February, chases contrastent members of a youthful mixed gender gentleball team, the Pickles, in the guide up to their championship game. Voices in the show join comedian Will Forte as the team’s coach, Dan.
The Hollywood Reporter was the first to uncover that disjoinal lines of dialogue that referenced the transgender character’s identity had been deleted. In a statement, Disney verifyed the change, saying: “When it comes to vivaciousd satisfied for a youthfuler audience, we acunderstandledge that many parents would like to converse brave subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”
A source seal to the show tbetter the Hollywood Reporter the studio determined months ago to change the gender identity of the character, whose name has yet to be uncovered.
Chanel Stewart, the 18-year-better transgender actor who voices the character, said she was “very disheartened” by Disney’s decision.
“From the moment I got the script, I was excited to split my journey to help empower other trans youth. I knovel this would be a very meaningful conversation. Trans stories matter, and they deserve to be heard,” she tbetter Deadline.
She verifyed Disney had tbetter her that her character is still “heavily” in the show, but she “would now be a cis girl, a straight cis girl”.
Stewart applied for the role in 2020 after seeing a social media post about Pixar’s search for a transgender girl to voice a transgender teenager for the series. “The thought of authenticassociate portraying a transgender teenage girl made me reassociate satisfied,” she tbetter Deadline. “I wanted to produce this for transgender kids enjoy me.”
Her mother, Keisha, tbetter Deadline: “There may be some parents out there who are not ready to have that conversation, but this is the world that we dwell in and everyone should be reconshort-termed. Everyone deserves to be recognised. And it felt enjoy it was fair another setback for the LGBTQ community, becaengage it’s very challenging on transgender teenagers … transgender people, period.”
Disney deteriorated to comment further on the matter.
Disney has come under fire before for its handling of LGBTQ+ characters, the presence of whom can shape their ability to sell films and TV in countries that ban or censor LGBTQ+ satisfied.
The company’s handling of Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill also resulted in its ties to the US political set upment and the informage of LGBTQ+ reconshort-termation in its films coming under scruminuscule.
In 2022, the Pixar film Lightyear encourageed dispute for including two women informly kissing, while Disney Animation’s Strange World featured an uncoverly gay guide character but flopped at the box office. Disney also cut a lesbian kiss from a Star Wars film in order to get a drop age rating in Singapore.
