Disney Ditches Film’s Transgender Storyline, Admits Woke Politics Is ‘Bad For Business’

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Few companies have been as quick to embrace the far-left’s woke agenda as Disney. The formerly family friendly entertainment empire has released a string of big-budget flops that promote lifestyles many parents don’t want their kids to see glorified.

Now that the cultural backlash is affecting the company’s bottom line, however, executives are apparently convinced that it’s in their best interest to alter their trajectory.

According to Fox News:

The billion-dollar company has recently been taking an active role in moving away from hot-button political issues in a way that seems to be signaling a change in priority. For example, the company confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday that it would be removing a transgender storyline from the upcoming animated Pixar series “Win or Lose.”

“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 spokesman said.

This contrasted what had been seen as a focus on diversity and inclusion in its films over the past few years, which some have credited with its string of box office flops and disappointments in 2023. As it has begun seeing more success with non-political films such as “Deadpool & Wolverine” and the recent “Moana 2,” experts believe this could be a shift back to entertainment.

“Disney provides a product: entertainment,” Charles Elson, a former director at the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, told the Los Angeles Times. “It shouldn’t be about politics.”

The report continued:

“You don’t want to get in a fight with the head of a government that regulates you,” he added. “Politics is bad for business.”

While disillusioned Disney fans might see this move as a sign the once-beloved company is again headed in the right direction, but it remains to be seen whether audiences far and wide will return anytime soon. After all, the company’s embrace of woeness has sparked immense outrage lately.

News of Disney’s latest strategy shift came as Brendan Carr, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, put pressure on the company its subsidiary, ABC News, according to The Hill:

“As you know, affiliate agreements establish the contractual terms that govern many features of ABC’s relationship with the dozens of licensed local broadcast TV stations across the country,” Carr wrote in the letter, posted on the social platform X by CNN’s Brian Stelter on Monday.

Carr noted these deals included the rights to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight” with David Muir, NFL football and Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, setting the terms for how much local outlets pay for ABC content.

Carr cited reporting that some ABC affiliate agreements were set to expire by the year’s end without new deals, and he suggested local viewers could pay the price.

“My understanding is that ABC is attempting to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations under the threat of terminating long-held affiliations, which could result in blackouts and other harms to local consumers of broadcast news and content,” he added.

ABC News is forking over millions of dollars as part of a settlement after Trump filed a defamation suit:



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