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The other big area is gender identity and expression.

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So doing all of this work to ensure that our employees and cast can express their gender

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here authentically and proudly at the company.

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So coming up with guides on how to change your photo information about pronouns, working

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with our benefits team to give information about gender affirmation procedures, both for our employees

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who are transitioning and trans, but also our employees who have kids who are transitioning.

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I identify as a bi-romantic asexual.

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I've had a lot of learning and growing about myself this year, kind of facilitated by how

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comfortable I felt on the proud family and with my immediate team at Disney TVA.

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And so it's just sort of like this creative dissonance between my personal experience where

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I feel so safe and so supported.

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I mean, I wasn't in the closet, but I'm real out now.

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I feel like I'm like outside of my team, outside of TVA, it feels like the things that

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we believe that we're trying to put into the shows are not what we're seeing in the real

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world.

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And yeah, it leaves you in a weird place.

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I'm still thinking, I want to use my content to go deeper, talk about how not monolithic,

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the LGBTQ plus community as an asexual as an asexual.

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But what is those, I feel like a lot of people don't know what that is.

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I have to like have a dissertation ready at any given time.

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I want to like add the pockets of the LGBTQ community that you don't see.

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I was like, I want to get like gay advanced.

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And then I realized like, oh, shit, you need to go back to like gay 101.

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So it's like, hello, everyone.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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I really appreciate you taking time out of your day for this very important session.

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Right now, I hope you've all read my most recent note in which I pledge to be a better

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ally for the LGBTQ plus community, apologize for not being the ally that you needed me to

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be and committed to ensuring that our company lives up to its values.

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I meant every word.

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And that's what we're here to talk about today.

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I know that we've got work to do and that work starts with listening.

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I'm glad the company will hear from today's panel of LGBTQ plus employees.

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And I hope that you are as impacted as I've been by the voices that have heard over the

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past few weeks.

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I've read many emails that have been sent spoken with LGBTQ plus employees in their allies,

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met with advocacy groups and convened my own leadership team.

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And I have been taken by the honesty, the openness and the urgency of their stories.

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I want you to know that your words have made a real impact on me.

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I understand that we've made mistakes and the pain that those mistakes have caused.

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And I know that our silence wasn't just about the bill in Florida, but about every time

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an individual or institution that should have stood up for this community did not.

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I and the leadership team are determined to use this moment as a catalyst for more meaningful

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lasting change.

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We've heard many suggestions on how to do that and we are working to move quickly.

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I want to thank the LGBTQIA plus advisory council, their allies and everyone else who

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is submitted ideas on how we can take action.

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I am convening a meeting with all my direct reports and representatives of the advisory

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council to discuss the thoughtful suggestions that have been made.

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That we know the moment requires urgency and words are not enough.

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So we are taking some actions right now.

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So you're about to see some leaked Disney footage of a meeting they're having about changing

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their content to be more sexually charged for trends and gay content.

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Now there's a line that they are definitely crossing here.

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We want everybody to be able to do what they want and have their own choice of their

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sexuality and how they want to live.

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Why are we showing not telling parents?

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They should have a press release explaining to everybody that their content is changing

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to more LGBT.

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Otherwise you're showing your kids what we've all thought as great awesome cartoons

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in content you're showing your kids unawareingly LGBT content.

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And when they're so young and impressionable you can actually influence their life in

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the negative way and they can actually turn gay or lesbian or trans just often idea and

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a cartoon.

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This is some sick stuff you need to be aware of this and you should show everybody just

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so they're aware of what Disney is about to be showing your kids.

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These hidden subliminal messages this thought process is going in to changing your kids.

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And yes it looks like this is a battle for equality and it looks like it's a win for

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equality but you're not seeing the full picture here.

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They are this is going the wrong direction.

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We're watching all of the classics.

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They have been a huge form of part of my life but at the same time I work at small

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studios most of my career and I heard you know for me I heard things like they won't

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like each other and so they just show them like okay so I was a little like so when I

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started but then my experience was definitely the opposite of what I had heard.

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On my little pocket of like you know proud family Disney TVA the show winners were super

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welcoming Meredith Roberts and like our leadership over there has been so welcoming to like

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my like not at all secret gay agenda and so like I feel like I felt like it was I mean

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like maybe it was that way in the past like yes like something must have happened in the

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last like you like they're turning it around they're going hard and then all that like

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momentum that I felt like that sense of I don't have to be afraid to like let's have

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these two characters kiss let's in the background like I was just wherever I could just

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basically adding queerness to like if you see anything queer the show without that but

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like I just was like no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me. I'm here as a

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mother of two queer children actually one trans gender child and one handsexual child and

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and and also as a leader and that was the thing that really got me because I have heard

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so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple weeks and open

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forums and through emails and phone conversations and I feel a responsibility to speak

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not just for myself but for them to all of us we had a we had an open forum last week

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a 20th where again the home of really incredible groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the

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years where one of our execs stood up and said you know we only have a handful of queer

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leads in our content and I went what I can't be true and I and I and I realized oh it

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actually is true we have many many many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and and yet we

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don't have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just just get to be characters

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and and not have to be about gay stories and so that's been very eye-opening for me

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and and I I can tell you it's something that I feel perhaps had this moment not happened

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um I is a leader and me as my colleagues would not have focused on and going forward

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I certainly will be more so I know that we will be and um and I hope this is a moment where

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she'd the 50% of the tears sorry coming um we don't we just don't allow each other to go backwards

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last summer we removed all of the gendered greetings and relationships to our live

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skills so we no longer say ladies and gentlemen boys and girls we we've trained we've provided training

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for all of our our past members and the relationship to that so now they know it's it's

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hello everyone or hello friends we we're in the process of changing over those those recorded

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messages and so many of you are probably fully brought the fireworks back to the magic kingdom

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we no longer say ladies and gentlemen boys and girls we say dreamers of all ages and so I love the

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fact that it's opened up the creativity the opportunity for our cast members to look at that we

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we have our cast members working with merchandise working with food and beverage working with

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with all of our guest space areas where perhaps you know we we want to create that magical moment

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with our cast members with our guests and we don't want to just assume because someone might be

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in our interpretation maybe presenting a female that they may not want to be called princess

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so let's think differently about how do we really engage with our guests in a meaningful and

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inclusive way that makes it magical and memorable for everyone and in space yeah I've had the

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privilege of working with the mungrel team for the last two years and it they've been really

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open to exploring queer stories and part of I'm on the production side part of the work that I feel

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like I can put in is making sure that we take place in modern daily York so making sure that

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that's like an accurate reflection of New York so I put together like a tracker of our background

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characters to make sure that we have like a full breadth of expression and we got into a

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very similar conversation carry of like oh all of our like gender non-conforming characters are in

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the background and so it's not just a numbers game of how many LGBTQ plus characters you have

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we got the further the the more centered a story is on a character the more nuanced you get

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to get into their story and especially with like trans characters you can't see if someone is trans

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there's not one way to look trans and so kind of the only way to have these like canonical

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trans characters canonical asexual characters canonical bisexual characters is to give them

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stories where they can like be their whole selves. There's some pretty crazy sick stuff I grew up

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with Disney and what I've learned about what Disney actually is is a heartbreaker I loved all Disney

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stuff and now I realize it's actually real real sick mind programming stuff you probably have seen

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