Disney has added an explicitly Christian character to Pixar’s new series Win or Lose. That might not be head-turning in isolation, but it comes just months after nixing a transgender character’s storyline from the same show, and amid a cultural wave of pushbacks to diversification, both for Disney and the country at large. Now fans online are speculating about exactly what this latest move might mean. Is Disney entering a new conservative era, or is this just all business as usual? Let’s take a look.

Pixar’s series, which debuted on Disney at the end of February, follows a team of preteen softball players, with each episode focusing on a different character. Reports about what actually happened to Win or Lose‘s trans character seem to be in conflict. In December, the Hollywood Reporter reported that........

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