Transgender doll

[Bragadocia]

Doll has been assigned transgender at construction. Has anyone asked the doll how it chooses to identify? I think not.

www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/17/worlds-first-transgender-doll-to-be-unveiled-at-new-york-toy-fair

"I always loved playing with dolls, [says Jazz, who inspired the toy]. “It was a great way to show my parents that I was a girl".

So what? I've put Ken in Barbie's clothes as a child, I am pretty sure.
And I sure hope this is the only thing transgender about that doll.

I'd find it a bit unsettling if it actually had a neovag detailed enough so that you can tell it is not an actual vagina.

£72?!?!

It's £72 because it's special.

I don't know how you're supposed to know it's transgender though, once out of the packaging. I rather thought it was a Kardashian.

The doll seems to 'pass'. I would never have guessed that it wasn't meant to be female. Or is that the point?

My DD doesn't seem to play with folks, is she trying to tell me something about which gender she identifies with

folks??? Dolls obv

Yes the quote about playing with dolls proving you are a girl bothered me. My DD never did, but is now 20 and hasn't mentioned that she is actually a boy. Why on earth can't boys play with dolls?? Wear dresses?

Will it be anatomically correct

Actually Terfinator I looked at it and thought they had captured that not quite right look to a T. She doesn't quite pass.

Actually Terfinator I looked at it and thought they had captured that not quite right look to a T. She doesn't quite pass.

I thought that, too, but is that intentional, or is it just a badly made doll?
It seems unlikely to me that they did that on purpose.

I don't get it.

Jazz Jennings played with dolls when he was a little boy to prove he was a girl? I can't believe such a reductive argument is even allowed to exist unchallenged, let alone lead to the existence of a "transgender" doll. Are children even supposed to be able to comprehend that this doll "was a boy but now identifies as a girl"? Or is this doll, considering the eye watering price tag, intended for transwomen to buy for themselves?

My five year old DD doesn't care for dolls and never has. Does that mean she isn't a girl?

Performance playing? The definition of play is that its un-selfconscious.

I never liked dolls, DS1 never liked any kind of humanoid toy, DS2 has put to bed, or taken to bed to snuggle, everything from his brothers cars, to his Bing doll, to boxing gloves and a metal detector and often carries some doll or other around and has it eat food with him and chats to it.

Which genders are we all again? Fuck that. We're all just us, with our own interests, and those interests have nothing to do with what we have in our pants.

I preferred action men to dolls, as they came with better accessories. And yet I'm a woman.

I identify as a Hatchimal, so glad to see I will also be represented at the New York toy fair.

Does this mean Ken and Action Man were just asexual and ahead of their time? That Barbie had top surgery and was only half way through bottom surgery? What was Tiny Tears?

You know, thinking about it, almost all my dolls were intersex. They just had a peehole, if that, and no genitals whatsoever. Could have been babies of either sex with mutilated genitals, the poor darlings.
There was only one baby boy. Whom I might have dressed in the flowery dresses of my other dolls sometimes.

Clearly, I was a very inclusive child and very ahead of my time ... well, except most children likely did the same and owned the very same kind of doll.

The theory that Barbie is trans makes so much sense - I mean, even at six years old, I knew that real women didn't look like that. With lots of surgery, on the other hand ...

Does it have a penis?

It better identify as a naturist with crap hair before I shell out £75 for it as my daughter will have it's clothes off and giving it a bath before you can say genderqueer Demi boy. It will thusly, stay permanently naked and frizzed of hair until she decides to bury it in the garden (if the fate of her other dolls is anything to go by).