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So coming up with guides at 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 to DA.

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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 like in the closet, but like I'm real out now.

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I'm like, I'm like outside of my team, outside of TVA.

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It feels like the things that we believe that we're trying to put into the shows are not

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what we're seeing in the real world.

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And yes, it's leading 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 it does is 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, 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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a 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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but you're not seeing the full picture here.

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This is going the wrong direction.

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Just watch.

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We're all 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 studios

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most of my career and I heard you know to deal with this.

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I heard things like they won't let you show the Disney show and I'm like okay so I was

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a little like so when I started.

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

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On my little pocket of proud family Disney TVA, the show winners were super welcoming

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

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not at all secret gay agenda.

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like yes like something must have happened in the last like you like they're turning

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around they're going hard and then all that like momentum that I felt like that sense

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of I don't have to be afraid to like let's have these two characters kiss.

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Let's in the background.

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So like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness to like the if you see

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anything queer the child.

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Proud that.

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But like I just was like no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.

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I'm here as a mother of two queer children actually.

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One transgender child.

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And when hands actual child and and also as a leader.

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And that was a thing that really got me because I have heard so much from so many of my

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colleagues over the course of the last couple of weeks.

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And open forums and through emails and phone conversations and.

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I feel a responsibility to speak not just for myself but for them.

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To all of us we had a we had no conform last week at 20th where.

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Again, the home of really incredible groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the years where.

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One of our sex to up and said, you know, we only have a handful of queer leads in our content.

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And I went what I can't be true.

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And I and I and I realized, oh, it actually is true.

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We have many, many, many LGBT go QIA characters in our stories and and yet we don't have enough.

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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.

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And so that's been very eye opening for me.

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

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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.

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And I hope this is a moment where.

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She the 50% of the tears.

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Sorry coming.

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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 skills.

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So we no longer say ladies and gentlemen boys and girls.

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We we've trained we've provided training for all of our our past members in the relationship to that.

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So now they know it's it's hello everyone or hello friends.

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We we're in the process of changing over those those recorded 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 fact that it's opened up the creativity the opportunity for our cast members to look at that.

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We we have our cast members working with merchandise working with food and bear our working with with all of our guest space areas where perhaps you know we we want to create that magical moment with our cast members with our guests.

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And we don't want to just assume because someone might be in 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 inclusive way that makes it magical and memorable for everyone.

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And it's based.

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Yeah, I've had the privilege of working with the mongrel team for the last two years and if they've been really open to exploring queer stories and part of I'm on the production side.

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part of the work that I feel like I can put in is.

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Making sure that we take place in modern day in New York so making sure that that's like an accurate reflection of New York so I put together like a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have like a full breadth of expression.

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And we got into a very similar conversation carry of like oh all of our like gender non-conforming characters are in the background and so it's not just a numbers game.

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Of how many LGBTQ plus characters you have we got.

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The further the the more centered a story is on a character the more nuanced you get to get into their story and especially with like trans characters you can't see if someone is trans there's not one way to look trans and so kind of the only way to have these like canonical trans characters canonical asexual characters

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is to give them stories where they can like be their whole selves.

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There's some pretty crazy sick stuff I grew up with this name what I've learned about what Disney actually is is a heartbreaker.

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I loved all Disney stuff and now I realize it's actually real real sick mind programming stuff you probably have seen the stuff about subliminal messages in the Lion King and other series like that.

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