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Knock, knock, knock, knock knock. To do a quick wellness check on Minnesota because. What do you mean we're handing out trans dolls with swappable genitalia to 4 year olds? 4 year olds? No, I'm not making any of this up in the land of tampon. Tim Waltz, who did yes, by the way, just pardon a child sex offender and rapist because he was an illegal immigrant. Important things. Two professors have spent the last six years at the University of Minnesota's medical school developing a new consumer product, My Gender Dolls. The ick with that name, E.W. david, that are not just a fun play toy for kids to engage with, but are supposed to be educational in nature, used by medical professionals and educators to expose children to the reality that you have options to switch your gender whenever you want, like a paper doll. While this project was being developed through the University of Minnesota's med school, which by the way receives $15 million annually taxpayer funding, not sus at all. The professors who developed the project shared that the goal is for kids to be able to learn about different options for who they can be. And the med school funded little focus groups over the past several years, paying anywhere from $20 to $60 for trans and gender diverse children and their parents to play with the dolls and to talk about gender and bodies in large group settings. There have been a few prototypes of the dolls shown in public places, including in medical conferences and back in 2024. One of the dolls, all of which have gender neutral names like Sam and Avery, by the way, was shown during a gender transition with a. How do I put this delicately? Detachable penis taken off of the doll while a dress and girl's underwear were put on top of him instead. The school has tried to be abundantly clear in saying that no money from taxpayers was actually used for the of My Gender dolls, but they refuse to acknowledge if any money was spent in research and development for them. And the subpart of the university, the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, that developed these dolls in the first place, has a total research budget of $1.4 million. One of the co founders of My Gender Dolls is Professor Nick Ryder, who looks about exactly as you would expect the co founder of My Gender Dolls to look like. And the other is Associate Professor Diane Berg, who is a member of the association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers. Normalizing the whole minor attracted people thing. So this is literally just a grooming project, is it not? Is it not? And back in 2020, shared in a university publication that has now been deleted Everyone should be learning that there's diversity in gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel. Ann shared that she had already been using back then in the early 2000s these dolls with her own patients who 5 and 10 years old, 5 year olds playing with detachable penises and fake vagina manufactured parts. It is unclear at this time if parents will be able to order these dolls for their kids to play with as they're set to launch in a couple of weeks. But on the My Gender Dolls website they specifically say that what these were intended for originally is use within clinical and educational settings. They call it play based therapeutic approaches for trans and gender diverse children and say we make gen fun. My Gender dolls are the first of their kind therapeutic play approach designed for gender diverse children ages 4 through 10. And these dolls appear to be paper dolls that have over 100 different interchangeable accessories. So you can change their outfit or their haircut or even their hair color, or most importantly their internal and external genitalia, just swap it right out because that's exactly how it works in the real world. You can just take off the penis to put on a vagina. I guess news to me as a biomedical scientist by education, but you know, they say my Gender dolls are built for the professionals who support trans and gender diverse children in clinical and educational settings like mental health providers, school counselors and educators and pediatricians and allied health professionals. There are some creepy pediatricians out there already saying, but if I showed up with my daughter to the pediatrician's office and saw them hand her a paper doll with a removal movable penis, I don't even, I don't even know how it reacts. On their website they have a wait list that you are encouraged to fill out if you find yourself in one of these educator or clinical categories where you add your name, your email, the company or institution you work for, what range of kids you work with, starting with prepubescent children, and you fill out what your occupation is. You're a mental health provider, you're a pediatrician, you're a gender specialist, an elementary school teacher, a middle school teacher or other before listing how you heard about My Gender dolls in the first and oh, oh, oh, it doesn't stop at the psycho creepy pediatrician's office or a kid's gender mental health counselor. This fall in the state of Minnesota, these trans Mr. And Mrs. Potato heads who I guess are irrelevant now because they're Mr. And Mrs. Never thought about that before you uncoutch it. Swine. Androgynous potato heads. Well, darn it, it's good enough for me. Woody Are set to hit public school classrooms in Minnesota, funded by taxpayers for your kids as young as 4 years old. Totally normal behavior, completely sane. Not at all a reason to pull your kids from the already incredibly creepy grooming oriented public school system in America to homeschool them. And on the topic of insane woke universities like the University of Minnesota, don't send your kids there. One of the things I'm hearing from members of our generation all the time is where is anywhere still worth pursuing higher education if everybody else is so woke? And that's one of the reasons I learned Love Grand Canyon University. GCU is committed to helping our generation grow as students, academically, professionally and spiritually. They believe higher education should do a whole lot more than just prepare you for your first job. It should help shape the type of person that you become. All of their programs help to give you practical skills that you need to actually succeed in a real job, in the job market. And at the same time, students get to participate in a Christ centered community that truly develops your integrity right alongside your professionalism. And while so many colleges have raised their tuition over the past couple of years, GCU has kept their same tuition rate on their main campus for the past 17 years, unheard of in the world of higher ed, and in 2025 alone awarded more than $400 million in institutional scholarships to their students. If you're looking for a campus still worth pursuing your education at, I think you should go check out GCU and you can find your purpose at GCU Edu to learn more. But do you want to know the best part about all of this? About all of it frankly, is that as of August 1st of grooming a child is set to become a felony under state law in Minnesota for the very first time. Can someone, anyone, anyone out there, please, I beg of you, explain to me how grooming a child is considered a felony. But also taxpayer funds are being used to put trans paper dolls in your 4 year old's classroom and pediatrician office to encourage them to cut their own penises off or their breasts before they have even gone through puberty. How is that not grooming 90s kid to everyone else out there in the ethos? Whatever happened to Barbie or Ken? I mean frankly, the Ken doll is a real thing for a reason. Because kids don't need to be thinking about genitalia and biologically appropriate dolls. The only way that they should be thinking about that. In the realm of playing with dolls is the frigging pregnant Barbie that taught you about where babies come from. Does anyone remember that? I totally had one of those. I don't know where we put that. My mom must have sold it in a garage sale. Maybe. But did anybody else have the Barbie with the magnetic belly and the twin babies inside of it and you could take the belly off and all of a sudden she wasn't pregnant anymore. Freaking loved that thing. More of that biology lesson as a reinforcement that men can't have babies. But why are we putting vaginas and penises on dolls for kids to play with? Why? I was more of an American girl kid than a Barbie kid. And whatever happened to that sort of educational play with whole book series diving into incredibly rich chapters of and making you fall in love with what a kid can contribute to our society. More of that please. I don't know. Now that I'm thinking about Barbie and Ken and Toy Story and all of the fun things. Toy Story 5 was about the expansion of technology into kids play spaces. And nobody plays with toys anymore. They all play with iPads. How much do we want to Bet Toy Story 6 is going to be about the gender transition of Mr. And Mrs. Potato Head? It's all interchangeable parts now, everybody. Did you all take stupid pills this morning? Will you be trying to get one of these dolls for your kids? Or if you're a teacher, put them in your classrooms or a doctor in your pediatrician's office? Or would this make you immediately call 911 and try to put someone on the sex offender registry? Because I think I know how I would answer that question. But you may disagree. Let me know what you think about this in the comments.
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In this episode of The Isabel Brown Show, Isabel discusses the controversial introduction of "My Gender Dolls"—educational dolls with interchangeable genitalia—developed for children as young as four in Minnesota. She critically examines the ethical, social, and educational implications of these dolls, argues they constitute a form of "grooming," and scrutinizes the ideologies at play in public institutions supporting the project.
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