Transgender dolls to be available for Minnesota schoolchildren as young as 4 under Walz-backed program: report
Transgender dolls will be accessible to Minnesota school children between the ages of four and 10 starting this fall as a result of a taxpayer-funded development program supported by Gov. Tim Walz, according to a report.The MyGenderDolls, which were developed in part through the University of Minnesota’s Early Innovation Fund, will be for use by "clinicians and educators" starting this year, the New York Post first reported, citing the product's website.The dolls, according to the website, were "designed for gender diverse children ages 4–10."SEN HAWLEY WARNS IT WOULD BE 'UNCONSCIONABLE' IF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER FUNDS FLOW TO TRANS KIDS’ SEX CHANGESThey come with interchangeable accessories and removable and swappable genitalia to help children "realize all the different options that exist for who they can be — regardless of their body parts," University of Minnesota postdoctoral fellow Ben Parchem, Ph.D., said in a now-deleted article in the University of Minnesota Foundation's magazine.The dolls began as a research program in the University of Minnesota Medical School's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, spearheaded by two members of the school's faculty, Dianne Berg, PhD, and G.
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Transgender dolls will be accessible to Minnesota school children between the ages of four and 10 starting this fall as a result of a taxpayer-funded development program supported by Gov. Tim Walz, according to a report.The MyGenderDolls, which were developed in part through the University of Minnesota’s Early Innovation Fund, will be for use by "clinicians and educators" starting this year, the New York Post first reported, citing the product's website.The dolls, according to the website, were "designed for gender diverse children ages 4–10."SEN HAWLEY WARNS IT WOULD BE 'UNCONSCIONABLE' IF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER FUNDS FLOW TO TRANS KIDS’ SEX CHANGESThey come with interchangeable accessories and removable and swappable genitalia to help children "realize all the different options that exist for who they can be — regardless of their body parts," University of Minnesota postdoctoral fellow Ben Parchem, Ph.D., said in a now-deleted article in the University of Minnesota Foundation's magazine.The dolls began as a research program in the University of Minnesota Medical School's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, spearheaded by two members of the school's faculty, Dianne Berg, PhD, and G. Nic Rider, PhD, both educators in the school's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health."It’s really important to address the belief, ‘I’m not a 'real' boy because I don’t have these private parts,’ versus, ‘I am a real boy, whatever my anatomy looks like,’" Berg told the Foundation's magazine in the now-deleted article."It’s about helping children develop tools to cope with messages in society that could lead to shame," she added.VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED OVER ALLEGED POLICY OF KEEPING STUDENTS' GENDER TRANSITIONS HIDDEN FROM PARENTS"MyGender Dolls began as an idea of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health psychologist, Rachel Becker-Warner, PsyD. NCGSH Co-Director, Dianne Berg, PhD, and Communications Specialist, Ashley Finch, have been hard at work developing the dolls to be used as a therapeutic tool for transgender and gender diverse children.
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- Transgender dolls will be accessible to Minnesota school children between the ages of four and 10 starting this fall as a result of a taxpayer-funded development program supported by Gov. Tim Walz, according to a report.The MyGenderDolls, which were developed in part through the University of Minnesota’s Early Innovation Fund, will be for use by "clinicians and educators" starting this year, the New York Post first reported, citing the product's website.The dolls, according to the website, were "designed for gender diverse children ages 4–10."SEN HAWLEY WARNS IT WOULD BE 'UNCONSCIONABLE' IF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER FUNDS FLOW TO TRANS KIDS’ SEX CHANGESThey come with interchangeable accessories and removable and swappable genitalia to help children "realize all the different options that exist for who they can be — regardless of their body parts," University of Minnesota postdoctoral fellow Ben Parchem, Ph.D., said in a now-deleted article in the University of Minnesota Foundation's magazine.The dolls began as a research program in the University of Minnesota Medical School's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, spearheaded by two members of the school's faculty, Dianne Berg, PhD, and G.
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