A new Disney+ animated kids series Baymax!, features what is believed to be the company’s first transgender character, buying tampons at a supermarket.
Christopher Rufo, an academic at the conservative Manhattan Institute, tweeted what he claimed to be a ‘leaked’ version of the upcoming Baymax series, which has since been uploaded to Disney Entertainment Studio’s YouTube page.
The show features a robot nurse browsing the menstrual product aisle at a supermarket. The Big Hero 6 spinoff is set in the fictional town of San Fransokyo and shows Baymax, who works as a ‘personal healthcare companion.’
In the scene, the protagonist, the Marvel Comics superhero nurse robot Baymax, is reportedly helping a girl named Sofia, 12, who is experiencing her first period right before a school talent show and appears to be picking up menstrual products for her.
Earlier in the Baymax! episode, Sofia and the robot nurse discuss her period in the gender neutral bathroom, the New York Post…
