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Another woke loss: Parents score victory as Disney walks back plans for transgender character in animated series for children
Parents with traditional values scored an important victory as Disney bent the knee and scrapped plans to have a transgender character in an upcoming animated series aimed at children.
"Win or Lose" is an animated series produced by the Pixar Animation Studios. The children's show "follows the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game."
In recent years, Disney has suffered backlash and box office bombs because shows and movies aggressively propagated overtly leftist narratives to kids.
One of the characters in the series based on middle-school-aged children set to release on the Disney+ streaming service in February was previously slated to feature a transgender storyline. However, that LGBTQ narrative has been axed from the show at a time when audiences have consistently repudiated entertainment that pushes a woke agenda toward young children.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, "The character remains in the show, but a few lines of dialogue that referenced gender identity are being removed. A source close to 'Win or Lose' said the studio made the decision to alter course several months ago."
A Disney spokesperson conceded, "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."
Pink News reported that the transgender character's storyline was "seemingly set to have scenes in which they struggled with gender dysphoria."
The character is to be voiced by 18-year-old transgender actress Chanel Stewart.
Liberals launched a petition to have the transgender storyline reinstated.
"It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to know that this is blatantly an empty damage-control statement that spits in the face of the value of LGBTQ+ representation in family media," the petition said of the Disney statement.
"In the troubling, frightening times we live in, where LGBTQ+ individuals and communities continue to be threatened with persecution and denial of basic human rights, this continued suppression of authentic, meaningful queer storytelling simply cannot be accepted," the petition read.
The petition demanded Disney executives reverse their "cowardly, spineless decision to suppress queer voices for the sake of monetary gain from hateful, bigoted conservatives that they're so afraid of alienating for foolish reasons."
At the time of publication, the petition had just over 5,000 signatures.
In recent years, Disney has suffered backlash and box office bombs because shows and movies aggressively propagated overtly leftist narratives to kids.
Last year, Disney's "Elemental" animated movie featured a nonbinary character and tackled racism and xenophobia. However, the children's movie flopped at the box office.
As Blaze News previously reported, "Elemental" had the worst opening for a Pixar movie.
In November 2023, the Walt Disney Company admitted that culture wars have had significant impacts across the board on the multinational entertainment and media conglomerate.
As Blaze News previously reported, Disney warned investors that the company's wokeness presents risks to its "reputation and brands" in its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In March 2022, Disney inserted itself into the debate over Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill.
As retaliation, Disney's Pixar Animation Studios restored a same-sex kiss in its highly anticipated "Lightyear" movie.
As Blaze News previously reported, "Lightyear" tanked at the box office.
However, the liberal activism proved costly for the house of mouse when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revoked the Walt Disney Company’s special district status in the Sunshine State.
In June 2022, Disney's new show "Baymax!" featured a transgender character and there were mentions of menstrual product recommendations from an individual who is wearing a shirt that resembles the colors of a transgender pride flag.
In November 2022, the Walt Disney Company suffered another box office bust with the "Strange World" film, the house of mouse's first movie to feature an openly gay teen relationship.
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'They want to groom your children': University of Minnesota fronted cash to get 5-year-olds to play with sex-change dolls
The University of Minnesota is facing criticism over attempts to pay to have little kids play with sex-change dolls.
The National Center for Gender Spectrum Health is a radical initiative of the taxpayer-funded University of Minnesota's Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. The stated goal of the center, which is run by World Professional Association for Transgender Health members Katherine Spencer and Dianne Berg, is to "promote the well-being of all people across the gender spectrum (including those who are cisgender, transgender, and gender diverse)."
The NCGSH — which boasts of having secured over $87,000 in grant funding — put out a call in February for "transgender and gender diverse children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old and their parents," asking them to participate in a "hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!"
The flyer noted further that "children and parents will meet a few times in groups with others to play with and give us ideas about the activities" and promised compensation between $20 and $60 per group.
'It's about helping children develop tools to cope with messages in society that could lead to shame.'
The corresponding UM project page indicated that "MyGender Dolls" are "therapeutic tools intended for licensed therapists to use with patients and their parents or caregivers to help children who find it difficult to express themselves."
The dolls that the university was willing to pay to see kids play with, created by a transvestite activist, have "internal sex organs, external genitals, hair styles, clothing, and other accessories" that kids can swap out or "'layer on' to explore who they are."
The Minnesota-based publication Alpha News noted that in the university's video promoting the dolls, a narrator states, "There are lots of different ways to be a girl, a boy, or anywhere along the gender spectrum."
According to a crowdfunding page for the project on the UM website, the NCGSH began development on a MyGender Dolls app so that children could play around with doll genitalia and sex organs at home. Alpha News reported that Rachel Becker-Warner, a so-called "gender care" psychologist at the university, co-developed the app with Berg and transvestite artist Ashley Finch.
Berg told the University of Minnesota Foundation's biannual publication Discovery in the early days of the project that it was important for the dolls to have genitals and reproductive organs.
"It's really important to address the belief, 'I'm not a "real" boy because I don't have these private parts,' versus, 'I am a real boy, whatever my anatomy looks like,'" said Berg. "It's about helping children develop tools to cope with messages in society that could lead to shame."
'This is disgusting and has to stop.'
The dolls are apparently used in some cases to help imagine what their bodies might look like after irreversible mutilations.
"We were able to explore and brainstorm not just what our bodies are able to do now but what we want our bodies to do and look like in the future," said Elizabeth Panetta, an assistant UM professor, referencing her use of the dolls with kids. "We also were able to talk about private parts without it feeling too serious or clinical."
Alpha News indicated that neither UM's sex institute nor NCGSH responded to its requests for comment.
American Principles, a conservative pro-family group, noted on X, "Public universities should not be using YOUR tax dollars to groom children. This is disgusting and has to stop!"
"They want to groom your children," wrote Libs of TikTok. "Parents beware!"
Debbie Dooley, one of the original founders of the Tea Party movement, tweeted, "This is horrendous trying to brainwash young children with the sick transgender ideology."
The Cass Review, the peer-reviewed systematic studies that informed it, and other penetrating studies have made clear that so-called gender science is largely activistic nonsense, such that even the leftist British government felt compelled to recently issue a permanent ban on puberty blockers and to change to how confused children are handled by health professionals.
The Cass Review noted that the narrative upon which activists like those at the NCGSH rely is based on research of "poor quality," demonstrating "poor study design, inadequate follow-up periods and a lack of objectivity in reporting of results."
Berg, co-director of the NCGSH and a co-author of the child chapter of WPATH's Standards of Care 8, appeared in the damning 242-page report about WPATH published in March by Michael Shellenberger's think tank, Environmental Progress, wherein she is quoted as admitting adolescents are not mature enough to understand the ruinous effects or lasting impact of medical sex-change hormones.
Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck discussed the report and WPATH's advocacy for child sex-change mutilations in a special earlier this year.
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LGBT activists lean on Ohio Gov. DeWine to veto Republican bill protecting parental rights
Ohio Republicans successfully passed the Parents' Bill of Rights on the final day of the 135 General Assembly. The bill is now headed to Ohio's Republican governor for ratification.
The usual suspects, enraged by the prospect of increased parental involvement and greater transparency about what children are subjected to at school, are demanding that Gov. Mike DeWine veto the bill. While DeWine demonstrated last December his willingness to spike conservative legislation in the face of pressure from LGBT activists and other radicals, he appears resolved to hold his ground this time around.
The parental rights bill, HB 8, declares that "a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child." It would broadly require school districts in the state to adopt policies promoting parental involvement in the public school system.
To the apparent chagrin of LGBT activists and other radicals, HB 8 would:
- require that any "sexuality content is age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate for the age of the student receiving the instruction";
- provide parents the opportunity to review in advance any instructional material that deals with sex or sexuality and to opt their child out if so desired;
- require prompt parental notification of any substantial changes in a child's services at school, such as counseling services or monitoring "related to the student's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being," including requests by a student to identify as a member of the opposite sex;
- ensure that schools cannot inhibit parental access to their kids' education and health records;
- altogether bar school district personnel from encouraging kids to keep information from their parents;
- require school boards to adopt a policy authorizing students to be excused from school to attend a course in religious instruction off school property so long as their parents sign off, arrange transportation, and cover related expenses; and
- require parents to sign off before providing any type of health care service to a student with the exception to emergency situations, first aid, and other services required under state law.
After the bill passed the state Senate on Wednesday in a 24-7 vote, lawmakers in the House voted 57-31 to concur with state Senate amendments to the bill.
In the state Senate, all opposed were Democrats save for one Republican, state Sen. Louis Blessing III. In the state House, Republican state Reps. Jamie Callender, Gayle Manning, and Andrew White joined Democrats in voting against concurrence with the Senate changes to the bill.
DeWine has 10 days to ratify or veto the bill after receiving it.
State Rep. D.J. Swearingen, one of the bill's primary sponsors, noted on X, "This is a win for Ohio's families!"
'Planned Parenthood employees in Ohio public schools [are] disappointed today because they can no longer talk to 8-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity.'
Various non-straight organizations and leftist groups melted down over the successful passage of the bill.
The ACLU of Ohio dubbed HB 8 the "unsafe students act" and demanded that DeWine veto it, complaining that restrictions on content pertaining to sexuality "would potentially put students' safety at serious risk, particularly LGBTQ+ students, and eviscerate the trusted relationships between students and their teachers." The leftist outfit also concern-mongered about the proposed requirement that districts permit students to leave school grounds with parental permission to attend religious classes, suggesting that those who remained at school with fully secular course loads might be bullied.
The Kaleidoscope Youth Center, a minor-targeted LGBT outfit in the state, similarly called on DeWine to veto the legislation, claiming in a statement Thursday that the bill "will make schools less safe and inclusive for queer and trans people."
In its call for a veto, the transvestite activist group TransOhio claimed HB 8 "is a forced outing bill and a harmful curriculum restriction bill" that discriminates against non-straight parents.
Equality Ohio, another LGBT activist organization keen on continued secrecy, likened HB 8 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' Parental Rights in Education Act but suggested that it "goes even further than its counterpart in Florida by mandating students be reported to their parents if any school employee receives a request from a student to identify as a different gender than they were assigned at birth."
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, the Ohio Center for Sex Education, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, and the leftist Ohio Education Association, a state-level affiliate of the National Education Association, also fear-mongered about the bill.
Such groups might suspect that DeWine could be receptive to their demands because he previously vetoed a critical piece of conservative legislation in the face of a similar pressure campaign. Republican lawmakers had to override his veto to make the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation Act the law of the land, protecting children from sex-change mutilations and keeping men out of women's sports.
However, DeWine has indicated he favors the bill and intends to sign it, reported the Statehouse News Bureau.
"We've been looking at the language, and I've had some suggestions and changes that I wanted to make or additions I wanted to make," DeWine said earlier this month. "I think the additions that I think will be made by the legislature will provide so that I will be able to sign the bill."
"The days of the ACLU and the most fringe voices on the left driving the political debate in America are over. The age of powerful parent voices is here," Aaron Baer, the president of the Center for Christian Virtue, said in a statement. "The CCV-backed Parents' Bill of Rights, which includes important provisions to protect programs like LifeWise Academy and religious released time, tells government bureaucrats across Ohio that parents are in charge of their kids' education and health care decisions."
"And for the Planned Parenthood employees in Ohio public schools disappointed today because they can no longer talk to 8-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity, I have one message: It's probably time to find a new line of work," added Baer.
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