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You can stream the first episode of Pixar's Win or Lose on YouTube

It's the studio's first original series — and one that stood at the center of a controversy after news broke that Disney cut lines about a trans character's gender identity.

A pair of overshadowing circumstances compounded the online backlash over the decision: The news came on the heels of Donald Trump's election victory, and the show has an openly Christian character (Laurie) who prays aloud to "Heavenly Father" before heading to the plate. "When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline," a company spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter in December. An off-record source "close to" the project told the publication that the studio chose to cut the lines several months before, which (if true) would have placed it at a point when political forecasters saw the election's outcome as either a coin flip or slightly favoring former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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