Disney removes transgender character from upcoming Pixar series ‘Won or Lost’

An animated series that is much less inclusive than expected. Disney announced that it had removed references to transidentity which were originally planned in its next animated series entitled “Win or Lose”. Indeed, the big-eared firm announced Monday, December 16, that a transgender character would disappear from this future Pixar series broadcast on Disney +.

“When it comes to animated content aimed at young people, we understand that many parents prefer to discuss certain topics with their children in their own words, at a time that suits them,” the American subsidiary told the Hollywood Reporter.

At the age of 14, in 2020, Chanel Stewart was recruited after responding to an ad that Pixar was looking for an authentic transgender girl to voice a transgender teenager in a new animated series. “I was exactly the person they were looking for,” the young girl, now 18, tells Deadline.

“I wanted to do this for transgender children”

“The idea of ​​authentically representing a transgender teenager made me really happy. I wanted to do this for transgender children like me,” she explains to the American media. That’s why when she received a phone call from Disney Monday evening to explain that the series no longer included the transgender character, she said she was “very dejected.” “Transgender stories matter and they deserve to be heard,” she laments.

The transgender character will be part of the series, but Disney has removed the dialogues evoking his transidentity. “It’s just that my character would now be a cisgender girl, a heterosexual cisgender girl,” explains Chanel Stewart, whose voice will always be the one that dubs the character whose transidentity is no longer mentioned.