Disney World Guest Claims Evil Queen was Played By a Biological Man

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If the female Silver Surfer didn’t convince you that Bob Iger doesn’t intend to stop Disney’s pushing of identity politics, this might do it. That Park Place has heard from someone who told them that Disney World has a man playing the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The account claims this happened at Story Book Dining at Artist Point, a dining experience located in the Wilderness Lodge resort where characters from Snow White interact with guests. When the family was invited to meet the film’s villain, the Evil Queen, they were shocked to find that she was being played by a man, according to the story That Park Place received. When he complained to a manager, he got a thinly veiled lecture on gender identification and nothing in the way of an apology.

“For the most part the manager just listened and never once apologized for anything. At one point the manager stated ‘I can assure you that she is a woman.’ She went even further, trying to shame me, informing me that ‘she’ was so excited to get the part as the Evil Queen. For a brief moment I thought ‘oh… maybe I’m wrong’ but then I realized that I was just being gaslighted. I politely told the manager that ‘I know what you are doing and that I do not appreciate the fact that you are trying to be funny and disingenuous.’ So since the manager doubled down I also doubled down and asked ‘is the Evil Queen a biological male?’ The manager’s reply was, ‘I’m sorry sir, I cannot answer that.’”

That Park Place points out that Disney parks have had men play female characters before, and vice versa, but they were either in full costumes so you couldn’t tell – like Mickey Mouse or someone in a stage performance – but never a character whose sex was apparent like this (if it happened). WDW Pro shared That Park Place’s article on X and included a clip of this actor as the Evil Queen:

A family has reached out to That Park Place claiming they spent over $300 on a character meet and greet dinner at Walt Disney World… only to discover the Evil Queen character was almost certainly a biological male. This represents the first time we've heard of Disney using a… pic.twitter.com/jHRt64wl4O

— wdwpro (@wdwpro1) April 23, 2024

Based on that quick clip, I have no idea if that’s a man or a woman playing the Queen, but if the account that person sent to That Park Place is true, it seems pretty clear that it’s a man. And based on Disney’s recent history with this kind of thing – the man with a beard playing a princess in Disneyland, a Muppets show on Disney+ making Gonzo transgender – I find it very easy to believe they’d cast a man as a classic female character and let him interact with small children. And their attitude towards someone who’s uncomfortable with it is creepy (if it happened); you really can’t understand why parents wouldn’t want their children exposed to men playing women? But, of course, they do understand; they just don’t care because they’ve got an agenda to push on young people. This is why the company is losing money left and right, and why parents are increasingly losing trust in the children’s brand.