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return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>By now, many Americans are familiar with leftists&rsquo; unhealthy obsession with forcing transgenderism onto adults and children alike. But as it turns out, these delusions about biological sex are also popping up in a galaxy far, far away. <\/p>\n<p>In their latest act of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulane-university-to-host-event-on-decolonizing-study-abroad\/\" title=\"Tulane University To Host Event On \u2018Decolonizing Study Abroad\u2019\">left-wing activism<\/a>, The Walt Disney Company&rsquo;s &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; brand is giving fans a look at its first-ever trans-identifying clone trooper, named &ldquo;Sister.&rdquo; According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/10\/10\/nolte-transgender-stormtrooper-added-to-star-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a>, the character was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-push-bill-aimed-at-balancing-lgbt-rights-and-religious-freedom\/\" title=\"House Republicans Push Bill Aimed at Balancing LGBT Rights and Religious Freedom\">originally introduced<\/a> in a <em>young adult<\/em> novel two years ago but is now getting his first visual appearance in a new &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e229cf39dd46300cb9d3ab8f2dc340fe fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e229cf39dd46300cb9d3ab8f2dc340fe\"><\/div>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with the &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; universe, clone troopers are human clones of the bounty hunter Jango Fett, a man. Having been created with Fett&rsquo;s DNA, all clones look identical to one another, sharing the same face, voice, and other physical features.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/books\/disney-and-lucasfilm-provide-first-official-look-at-star-wars-new-transgender-clone-trooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bounding Into Comics<\/a>, the &ldquo;illustrated encyclopedia [is] intended for kids [and] written from the perspective of&nbsp;<em>Bad Batch&rsquo;s<\/em> Captain Rex.&rdquo; The outlet shared a quote from the book in which Rex refers to &ldquo;Sister&rdquo; using female pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When one of our kind expressed her gender identity differently than her fellow troopers, she [feared] she&rsquo;d have to hide who she truly was inside,&rdquo; Rex said, according to the outlet. &ldquo;Fortunately, her brothers in the 7th Sky Corps gave her the name Sister as a constant reminder that she belonged.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/books\/disney-and-lucasfilm-provide-first-official-look-at-star-wars-new-transgender-clone-trooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artwork<\/a> of &ldquo;Sister&rdquo; from the encyclopedia shared online shows a male clone with long, braided hair in white armor painted with the colors of the trans flag.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bef05504e1e641b2ad8abd29a635c390 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bef05504e1e641b2ad8abd29a635c390\"><\/div>\n<p>The incident represents yet another example of the dishonesty of Disney CEO Bob Iger, who, as I previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/07\/disneys-new-star-wars-shows-push-lgbt-insanity-on-your-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> in these pages, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/O50sM#selection-1945.1-1945.314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a>&nbsp;during the company&rsquo;s annual shareholder meeting [in April] that Disney&rsquo;s gamble with political activism and injecting leftist ideology into its content was over.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always believed that we have a responsibility to do good in the world, but we know our job is not to advance any kind of agenda,&rdquo; Iger said. &ldquo;For as long as I&rsquo;m in the job, I&rsquo;m going to continue to be guided by a sense of decency and respect, and we&rsquo;ll always trust our instincts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Our job is to &ldquo;entertain, first and foremost,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iger&rsquo;s pledge was shown to be completely meaningless a month later when Disney released &ldquo;Star Wars: Tales of the Empire,&rdquo; an animated anthology series geared toward children that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/07\/disneys-new-star-wars-shows-push-lgbt-insanity-on-your-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featured<\/a> a Jedi using &ldquo;they\/them&rdquo; pronouns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-67d790164af80416bf11e08fb607d92b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-67d790164af80416bf11e08fb607d92b\"><\/div>\n<p>The situation got even worse with the franchise&rsquo;s subsequent TV series, &ldquo;The Acolyte.&rdquo; Currently sitting at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/star_wars_the_acolyte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">18 percent<\/a> favorability rating with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, the live-action show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/06\/18\/nolte-lesbian-witches-drive-disneys-acolyte-to-another-record-low-audience-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introduced<\/a> viewers to lesbian space witches who create babies using magical Force powers. The &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/06\/04\/nolte-acolyte-gayest-star-wars-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gayest&nbsp;<em>Star Wars<\/em>&nbsp;yet<\/a>&rdquo; was canceled following its poor performance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-18ed3ac136638d10bf5e9b3bc800a526 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-18ed3ac136638d10bf5e9b3bc800a526\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-american-freedom-convoy-set-to-launch-on-march-1\/\" title=\"Exclusive: \u2018American Freedom Convoy\u2019 Set To Launch On March 1\">state content writer<\/a> for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. 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