“The White Lotus” creator Mike White removed a trans character from the series after President Donald Trump won the election, actress Carrie Coon told Harper’s Bazaar.

“There was a bit more context to her home life,” Coon said of her character, Laurie.

“You originally found out that her daughter was actually nonbinary, maybe trans, and going by they/them. You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggling to use they/them pronouns, struggling with the language, which was all interesting. It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question [in episode 3] of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world,” she told the magazine.

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