Another Disney heiress, Charlee Disney, child of Disney co-founder Roy Disney is coming out as transgender in an effort to bash the Florida parent’s rights bill. Quite honestly, I don’t care what one’s pronouns are or if they are transgender. I judge people by who they are, not their preferred pronoun. But this has all the hallmarks of a bad publicity stunt. Disney has gotten destroying over their support of grooming kids, this attempted distraction isn’t going to help sway public opinion.
A member of the Disney family has publicly come out as transgender amid the company’s chaotic response to Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education Law — known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law — and public feud with the state’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, pledging to match hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
The HRC last month refused a $5 million donation from Disney Chief Executive Bob Chapek, who has been criticized for fumbling the company’s response to the Florida law, which prevents primary school educators in the state from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Public school teachers through high school in Florida will also be barred from addressing those topics in a manner that is not “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate” for their students when the law takes effect this summer. The first legal challenge to the law was filed late last month by advocacy groups Equality Florida, Family Equality and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
In an appeal to the HRC obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Disney family member Roy P. Disney — the grandson of the company’s co-founder and great-nephew to Walt Disney — wrote, “Equality matters deeply to us, especially because our child, Charlee, is transgender and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.”