Saturday 2 July 2022 04:00 PM Disney's new kids' animated series Baymax! shows transgender man buying tampons ... trends now
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 said.
'I wasn’t prepared for this!' Sofia reportedly tells Baymax. 'And the dispenser’s empty! And I don’t even have a thing! A tampad. A pad-pon. A maxi-pad-pon with wings.'
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In a new Disney+ show, shows a transgender character (pictured in the transgender flag shirt, right) among a large group of others offering robot nurse Baymax advice on period products to bring back to 12-year-old Sofia, who just got her first period
The controversial scene shows Baymax standing next to a woman in the tampon aisle looking at the mass amount of products on the shelf, before asking her: 'Excuse me, which of these products would you recommend?'
The woman appears to be utterly shocked as she stares at the robot in horror before schooling her facial expressions.
She replies: 'Oh, um...well...these are the tampons I usually use.' She then hands the box of Gentle tampons over to the robot.
This incites the entire aisle to jump in to offer suggestions for Sofia, from wingless to winged pads, from products meant for first-time period experiences, to environmentally conscious products.
However, many parents and social media users were more astonished by a transgender character offering a period suggestion than by the openness of discussing the coming of age experience.
