Disney has removed a storyline from its upcoming streaming series Win or Lose, which focused on transgender ideology.
The series, set to release on Disney+ in February, follows a middle school softball team the week leading up to its championship game, with each episode focusing on a different character. For one of the characters, dialogue referencing transgender identity has been removed. That character, however, remains in the show.
“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 Hollywood Reporter.
Pixar, the studio releasing the series, opted to remove the dialogue several months ago, according to a source close to the project.
Pixar and Disney steering away from an LGBT storyline in Win or Lose comes after some of its theatrical films featuring such storylines underperformed financially. Lightyear, a Toy Story spinoff focusing on the iconic space ranger, flopped at the box office in 2022. The film generated discussion online for featuring Pixar’s first same-sex kiss in a feature film. It ended up with a global tally of $226 million, a far cry from how Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 grossed over $1 billion each.
In 2023, Pixar laid off 75 of its employees, marking the first time in 10 years the studio cut jobs. This was followed up a year later by laying off 175 employees in 2024, around 14% of the studio’s workforce.
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In September, it was reported by IGN that efforts were made in the production of Inside Out 2, released by Disney and Pixar in June, to make the main character, Riley, appear “less gay” when with another character in the film. The movie has since become Pixar’s biggest hit, grossing over $652 million in North America and almost $1.7 billion worldwide.
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Had Pixar and Disney left the transgender storyline in Win or Lose, it would not have been the first animated Disney+ series promoting LGBT themes, as 2022’s Baymax!, a spinoff series of 2014’s Big Hero 6, featured a transgender man in one episode.
