President of Disney General Entertainment Content Karey Burke said her children are “transgender” and “pansexual” while calling for more gay lead characters in a video of a meeting leaked on Twitter Tuesday.
“SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, ‘as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,’ she supports having ‘many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories’ and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities,” activist and writer Christopher Rufo tweeted.
SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, “as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,” she supports having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories” and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities. pic.twitter.com/oFRUiuu9JG
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
In the video, Burke does not appear to make the claim regarding half of Disney characters that Rufo cites. However, she does say that “we don’t have enough [LGBT] leads,” despite having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters.”
She also says that the company doesn’t have enough stories “in which gay characters just get to be characters and not have to be about gay stories.”
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“We just don’t allow each other to go backwards,” she said.
According to Burke, she relates to this issue because of her “two queer children.” It’s unclear what ages her children are.
Disney did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education act into law Monday, Disney released a statement saying, “Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law. Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”
Statement from The Walt Disney Company on signing of Florida legislation: pic.twitter.com/UVI7Ko3aKS
— Walt Disney Company (@WaltDisneyCo) March 28, 2022
DeSantis later slammed the statement, calling it “fundamentally dishonest” and blasting the company for its ties to China.
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“If we would’ve put in the bill that you are not allowed to have curriculum that discussed the oppression of the Uyghurs in China, Disney would’ve endorsed that in a second — and that’s the hypocrisy of this,” he said Tuesday.
