The University of Minnesota has been offering to pay young children to play with “transgender” dolls featuring interchangeable genitals.
The college put out an appeal seeking “transgender and gender diverse” five to ten-year-old children.
The young kids were offered between $20 and $60 to play with “MyGender Dolls” which feature mix-and-match genitals.
The appeal for “gender diverse” five-year-olds and the offer of “compensation” was revealed in an Instagram post advertising the activity.
“We are looking to hear from transgender and gender diverse children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old and their parents about a new hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!” reads the February 27 post.
The activity was organized by the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health (NCGSH).
NCGSH is part of the Human Sexuality program at the University of Minnesota’s medical school.
The Center has also produced a handbook to “support sexual pleasure education” for males who undergo transgender genital removal surgery.
It is unclear if any parents volunteered their “transgender or gender diverse” children for the study, however.
The “MyGender Dolls” are similar to classic paper dolls.
However, unlike traditional toys, they have movable internal sex organs, external genitals, hairstyles, clothing, and other accessories.
Children can “layer on” the items to supposedly build a representation of their own “true gender.”
The dolls were created by “transgender and gender diverse artists.”
The Center said the dolls are intended for use by “a gender-competent therapist who sees young children and adolescents for gender exploration.”
The NCGSH didn’t explain how a 5- to 10-year-old could claim to be “transgender or gender diverse.”
The “affirming” clinical approach for so-called “transgender” children has received fierce pushback from both parents and doctors over the last few years.
The subject of medicalization and surgery has been particularly controversial.
A growing number of men and women who were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones as children have since regretted these treatments and sought to “detransition.”
Meanwhile, the “transgender” dolls have already garnered national attention.
They were presented at the 2019 symposium of the U.S. division of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
WPATH’s controversial standards of care for transgenders have come under fire in recent years.
Elsewhere on its website, the NCGSH touts that it has faculty serving on the WPATH Standards of Care document revision committee.
One of the Center’s co-directors is Dr. Dianne Berg, who serves on WPATH’s child and adolescent committee and is interested in both “gender creative children” and “compulsive sexual behavior,” according to her biography on the University of Minnesota’s website.
Her co-director is Dr. Katie Spencer.
Spencer’s biography says she is “passionate about social justice and feminist approaches” to clinical practice.
The Center says part of its mission is to “eliminate gender-based stigma and discrimination.”
It also says it wants to promote scholarship by transgenders, “challenge cisnormativity in healthcare,” and “promote pleasure and positive sexuality for all bodies.”
NCGSH revealed that it recently received $87,500 more in grant funding.
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