The White Lotus creator Mike White has confirmed that a trans subplot was axed from the current season due to the current political climate.
The storyline involved Carrie Coon's character Laurie, who is on a girls' trip at the hotel with two childhood friends, revealing that her daughter was exploring her identity.
She told Harper's Bazaar: "There was a bit more context to her home life. You originally found out that her daughter was actually non-binary, 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."
The scene was dropped by White, however, after Donald Trump was re-elected as President - and gives added context to why Laurie struggled with friend Kate (Leslie Bibb) admitting that she had voted for him.
White explained: "It felt right in March of last year. Now, there's a vibe shift. I don't think that it was radical, but that's not the kind of attention I want.
"The politics of it could overwhelm whatever ideas I'm trying to talk about. And a lot of it was about time. Every episode is bulging at 60 minutes."
The season finale of The White Lotus airs tonight at 2am on Sky Atlantic in the UK and Ireland, and simultaneously at 9pm on Max in the US.
Neil Wilkes
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