South Park nailed it years ago when the show lampooned Disney's creative playbook. A fictionalized Kathleen Kennedy has just one answer for every project: "Put a chick in it! Make her lame and gay!" It was devastating satire, and clearly, Disney hasn’t learned its lesson. They’re doing the same things as always to alienate viewers, as if making content people want to watch no longer matters to them.
Disney decided to do a mini-revival of the early 2000s sitcom Malcom in the Middle. I never watched the show during its original run, but we recently started trying to watch it at home, looking for something family-friendly to tune into in the evenings. It’s not making a good impression on me. But, coincidentally, as we started watching it, I learned of the 4-episode mini-revival Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair, which features most of the original cast.
The show originally ran on Fox from 2000 to 2006. Disney absorbed 20th Century Fox in 2019 and, with it, the rights to its catalog. And sure enough, they put a chick in it, made her lame and gay.
The revival introduces a sixth child into the Wilkerson family, a nod to the original finale, which ended with the mother, Lois, announcing she was pregnant. That baby is Kelly, a girl who “identifies” as “non-binary.” Creator Linwood Boomer and executive producer Tracy Katsky confirmed the inspiration was personal since three of their four children are “queer.” Which tells you everything you need to know about Hollywood.
Kelly doesn't just exist quietly in the background. The character gets a full monologue in a video tribute celebrating Hal and Lois's 40th wedding anniversary, which goes like this:
I was like five when I started feeling wrong. Thought I was great at hiding it because you guys never said anything. But then, I had this one really sh * * * y day in fifth grade. The other kids and, and even my teacher... When, when I had little kid problems, I'd just go to Dad and he'd clown around and make me feel better. And, and I wanted to do that, but instead I just blurted out, "Dad, am I wrong?" And he was looking at me and, and I knew that he knew, and had always known. And I could tell he was thinking like, like really hard. And I was terrified. And then, then he finally said, "You could be nicer to your mom sometimes." So yeah, I like him.
‘Malcolm in the Middle’ reboot branded ‘woke’ for featuring non-binary sibling.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 13, 2026
“I was like 5 when I started feeling wrong.”
Kelly, the 6th child of Malcom’s parents, is non-binary using they/them pronouns and is portrayed by a non-binary actor. pic.twitter.com/KB5BpEuMJU
Totally normal moment for a sitcom, right?
The show frames it as a tender family breakthrough. What it actually delivers is shoving gender ideology down the throats of fans who were just tuning in for the nostalgia of a show that they once enjoyed. Now, this goes beyond a television review. The narrative that children are born in the "wrong" body has driven justification for medical interventions in minors — cross-sex hormones and surgeries that permanently disfigure their bodies.
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While the world is finally starting to push back, Hollywood and Democrats in Congress are desperately clinging to it. And Disney keeps running the same play, leaning on nostalgia to lower the audience's defenses long enough to slip in a lecture about this evil ideology.
South Park saw it for what it was. Disney just keeps proving them right.
