Critique #4: PinkNews article on LGBT representation in BAYMAX! and the discourse surrounding it

Article link: New Disney series BAYMAX! praised for showing trans person buying period products

I titled this critique post "PinkNews article on LGBT representation in BAYMAX! and the discourse surrounding it" but let's be honest, it's not really discourse, it's just butthurt bigots getting all pissy while the queers try to knock some sense into them.

In this article, we once again see conservatives getting all angsty about the fact that Disney's latest addition to the Big Hero 6 universe portrays very real bodily functions like menstruation and very real human emotions like same-sex attraction.

We get the usual argument claiming that Disney is pushing some sort of agenda surrounding kids and sexuality and that educating children on the concepts of menstruation and homosexuality is somehow inappropriate. But what this article shows that the other articles I've presented don't is the LGBTQ+ community's response to these statements.

I think this is something I really love about the queer community. We're always ready to come to each other's defense--even if the someone we're defending is a fictional healthcare robot. As a non-cisgender nor heterosexual person, it's nice to know that I have such a strong support system surrounding me even when I can't physically see it and I'm sure many queer people feel the same way. Besides, we queers deserve comfort characters of our own too so these bigots will have to pry Baymax from my cold, dead hands.

Unfortunately, Disney hasn't always had a positive with supporting the LGBTQ+ community. They've disappointed me before but at the end of the day, Disney movies have played an important role in my upbringing and have become a big part of who I am and it makes me really happy to see that they've begun to take some steps in the right direction.