

The showrunners specified that trans women with Y chromosomes also died, as well as women with androgen insensitivity who were unaware they possessed Y chromosomes.
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The producers aimed to update and expand on the ramifications of this, to reflect changing societal attitudes toward gender in the almost two decades since the comic began. (Birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates are unaffected because they mostly use different sex chromosomes.) While transgender people did not feature heavily in the original comic, it was mentioned that trans men survived due to not having Y chromosomes. In the original comic book series, every animal with a Y chromosome instantaneously dies at the same time, including most mammals.
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The series follows Yorick as he traverses the new world, as its survivors struggle with their losses and attempt to restore world society-led by Yorick's mother, who is the new U.S. Y: The Last Man takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious cataclysmic event simultaneously killed every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one man – Yorick Brown ( Ben Schnetzer) – and his male pet monkey Ampersand. The series was removed from Hulu on May 26, 2023. It received generally positive reviews from critics, but was cancelled in October 2021, after one season. It premiered on September 13, 2021, on FX on Hulu, and stars Diane Lane, Ashley Romans, Ben Schnetzer, Olivia Thirlby, and Amber Tamblyn.

Filming began in 2020, with several casting changes, including the lead role of Yorick. A first season was greenlit in 2019 with Clark replacing original showrunners Michael Green and Aida Mashaka Croal. The series began development at FX in October 2015, with a pilot ordered and filmed in 2018. In the series, a mysterious cataclysmic event simultaneously kills every mammal with a Y chromosome-except for Yorick Brown and his monkey–and follows him as he traverses the new world. Y: The Last Man is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series developed by Eliza Clark based on the comic book series of the same name by Brian K.
