They need to keep the storyline. In this day and age where transgender youths are treated poorly because of transphobic bigots' inability and refusal to understand or accept them for who they are, storylines like this is needed more than ever. They deserve to be seen and heard. It could even potentially save several transgender lives from despair. Erasing a story about a transgender youth WILL NOT help anyone, especially LGBTQ+ youths. It's only going to make things worse. Disney NEEDS to do better than this. They have no valid excuse.
Trans kids do not transition on their parents timeline. It’s important now more than ever for trans and LGBT youth to see themselves represented in media so they can ask important questions, feel seen, and know that they are not alone in their experience.
As a person who came out to their parents as trans recently and got rejected and got told I didn't know. I would love for kids to grow up and feel like themselves instead of thinking something is wrong with them just because they don't feel like the gender they were born as.
Stuff like good representation shouldn't be something that has to be fought for, trans people deserve to have representation that portrays them in a positive light. And non-trans folk should see media that shows trans people being friends with cis people and being shown basic decency and respect, because that's how it should be. Decisions like the one that got that story removed are exactly the kind of decisions that should be called out.
Stories like this are more important now than ever before.
I understand parents wanting to have these conversations with their kids but sometimes they either can't or won't and those kids deserve to feel seen in art like this.
being trans as a teenager and socializing with other people my age is the most alienating and dehumanizing thing that I will ever go through, and it's storylines like this that make me feel represented in media. Disney couldn't know less about minorities, it is abundantly they're biased towards republicans, and the statement they give shows that. This isn't even the first time nearly the exact same thing has happened, with the 2-second scene of lesbians in gravity falls being cut, given the exact same reasoning. and I'm sure this has happened even more times than we know about. we can't let Disney keep doing this. Disney's statement falls apart even more if you apply it to other minorities, could you imagine if they cut a POC character because they want white families to tell their kids about people of color "when they're ready"?