{"id":1492689,"date":"2022-05-26T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492689"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:29:54","slug":"mattel-announces-new-barbie-doll-to-celebrate-transgender-actor-laverne-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mattel-announces-new-barbie-doll-to-celebrate-transgender-actor-laverne-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattel Announces New Barbie Doll to Celebrate Transgender Actor Laverne Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmattel-announces-new-barbie-doll-to-celebrate-transgender-actor-laverne-cox%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Mattel has announced the release of its newest Barbie doll to celebrate transgender actor Laverne Cox\u00a0meant to \u201chighlight the importance of inclusion and acceptance\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to highlight the importance of inclusion and acceptance at every age and to recognize Laverne\u2019s significant impact on culture with a Tribute Collection Barbie,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/laverne-cox-gets-own-barbie-doll-mattel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Lisa McKnight, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Barbie and Dolls at Mattel, according to <i>People<\/i>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Laverne Cox now has her very own Barbie doll, an honor she said is a &#8220;dream.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Velzg3RdBV\">https:\/\/t.co\/Velzg3RdBV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1529585912115777539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe it. I love her outfit,\u201d Laverne Cox said. \u201cWhat excites me most about her being out in the world is that trans young people can see her and maybe get to purchase her and play with her, and know that there\u2019s a Barbie made by Mattel, for the first time, in the likeness of a trans person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The 50-year-old <i>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/i> star also blasted the current political climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in an environment where trans children have been used as a political football,\u201d Cox continued, \u201cwhen over 250 pieces of anti-trans legislation have been introduced in state legislatures all over the country in 2022 alone, and access to gender-affirming healthcare has been denied by policies signed into law in my home state of Alabama, in Arkansas and other states\u2026 That in this environment where trans kids are being attacked, that this can also be a celebration of transness, and also a space for them to dream, understand and be reminded that trans is beautiful. That there\u2019s hope and possibility for them to be themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21141043\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/05\/image-27.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Barbie x Laverne Cox\u00a0Laverne Cox Barbie Doll. Mattel<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cox also said a Barbie doll was a desired toy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI begged my mother for a Barbie doll, and she said no because I was assigned male at birth,\u201d Cox exclaimed. \u201cAnd when I was in my 30s, I was in therapy and telling my therapist that I was denied the opportunity to play with Barbie dolls. And my therapist said, \u2018It\u2019s never too late to have a happy childhood, and what you should do for your inner child is go out and buy yourself a Barbie doll.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI played with my Barbie, and I told my mom what my therapist had said. And that first Christmas after that, my mom sent me a Barbie doll,\u201d Cox added. \u201cAnd she\u2019s been sending me Barbies for Christmas and for my birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cox claimed to have been \u201cvery involved\u201d in the design process and noted that the initial plan was to have several different outfits for the doll until Mattel said the idea was cost prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Inventing Anna<\/i> actor also said that there was a point where Mattel offered up a doll with lighter skin which the star asked to have darkened before the final design.<\/p>\n<p>Last June,\u00a0Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/06\/09\/trans-actor-laverne-cox-blasts-republicans-for-dehumanizing-trans-kids-weaponizing-the-culture-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> conservatives are \u201cdehumanizing\u201d trans kids by working to ban them from competing in sports under their chosen gender.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, or Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthsocial.com\/WarnerToddHuston\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel has announced the release of its newest Barbie doll to celebrate transgender actor Laverne Cox\u00a0meant to \u201chighlight the importance of inclusion and acceptance\u201d \u201cWe are proud to highlight the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}