{"id":1514029,"date":"2022-06-13T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514029"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:34:58","slug":"preaching-to-six-year-olds-barbie-wants-little-girls-to-be-anything-even-a-new-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/preaching-to-six-year-olds-barbie-wants-little-girls-to-be-anything-even-a-new-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching To Six-Year-Olds: Barbie Wants Little Girls To Be Anything\u2014Even A New Gender"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fpreaching-to-six-year-olds-barbie-wants-little-girls-to-be-anything-even-a-new-gender%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=1514029&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>Barbie says you can be whatever you want when you grow up \u2014 even transgender. Just in time for Pride Month, Mattel has debuted a doll modeled after Laverne Cox, transgender actor and 2014 \u201cGlamour\u201d magazine Woman of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope all the kids who are feeling stigmatized when their healthcare is being jeopardized, their ability to play in sports, I hope they can see this Barbie and have a sense of hope and possibility,\u201d Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a5uEAgzeR0s\">said<\/a> about the new Barbie on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barbie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchomatic.com\/mattel-barbie-doll-target-market-156300.html\">target market<\/a> has traditionally been girls from ages three to 12. Though, as each successive generation has matured more quickly\u00a0 and, therefore, at a younger age, Barbie\u2019s targeted age group has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-trouble-with-barbie-2015-01-26\">shrunk<\/a> to three- to six-year-olds. You could argue that the audience for a Laverne Cox doll is more of an older crowd, willing to spring for a $40 collector\u2019s item, but that\u2019s not what Cox thinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresentation matters,\u201d the actor said of this brave new Barbie. Cox claimed that over 250 pieces of \u201canti-transgender\u201d legislation have been introduced all over the country this year, \u201ctargeting transgender children\u201d and \u201cLGBTQ youth.\u201d Most likely, Cox\u2019s remarks reference an NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/nearly-240-anti-lgbtq-bills-filed-2022-far-targeting-trans-people-rcna20418\">report<\/a> which stated that over 240 pieces of anti-LGBT legislation were introduced this year, about half of them \u201ctargeting transgender people specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These include bills that allow talented female athletes to remain competitive, keep the opposite gender out of the wrong bathroom, and prevent minors from making the life-altering decision to take puberty blockers or have their growing bodies surgically altered. As is usually the case with the Left, an alarming buzzword (\u201canti-transgender\u201d) couches a commonsense policy (not letting impressionable children pump themselves full of hormones before they\u2019re old enough to vote or drink).<\/p>\n<p>This kind of rhetoric may play well with liberal viewers, but a majority of Americans don\u2019t want their children wading through this gender ideology. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/another-poll-finds-most-americans-oppose-teaching-k-3-children-about-sexual-orientation-transgender-issues\">poll<\/a> from earlier this year found that half of Americans wouldn\u2019t want their kindergarten through third graders learning about sexual orientation and transgenderism, supporting Florida\u2019s \u201cParental Rights in Education Bill\u201d \u2014 dishonestly dubbed the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill by the Left.<\/p>\n<p>None of that matters to Cox, or Mattel, who are now in the business of preaching to six-year-olds that they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up \u2014 even a different gender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaverne uses her voice to amplify the message of moving beyond societal expectations to live more authentically,\u201d Mattel said in its <a href=\"https:\/\/community.creations.mattel.com\/news\/barbie\/public-news-stories\/barbie-tribute-collection-laverne-cox-doll-r1960\/?ct=1654724316\">announcement<\/a> of its first transgender Barbie. \u201cLaverne embodies the values of the Tribute Collection, and we\u2019re thrilled to make her a part of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Mattel is just following the market. They\u2019re predicting that having a transgender Barbie will be worth the woke points they gain, despite the customers they may lose. It\u2019s the same gamble that led to the production of their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realUNOgame\/status\/1532423787353886742\">Uno Pride edition<\/a> (as if the cards weren\u2019t already multicolored enough) as well as Fisher-Price\u2019s little drag queen figures, which are marketed to toddlers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing Williams Institute, which studies sexual orientation and policy, estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/publications\/trans-adults-united-states\/#:~:text=5%20In%20this%20report%2C%20we,youth%2C%20would%20identify%20as%20transgender.\">that<\/a> \u201c1.4% of youth ages 13 to 17, about 300,000 youth, would identify as transgender.\u201d While this number is certainly larger than it was just a few years ago, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-growing-number-of-celebrities-with-trans-children\">transgenderism in pop culture<\/a> is seriously on the rise, this number still represents a tiny fraction of young people in the U.S. Yet, transgenderism is becoming \u201ctrendy,\u201d as even one transgender psychologist put it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Psychologist Erica Anderson recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gone-too-far-transgender-psychologist-admits-spike-in-trans-kids-alarming-become-trendy\">expressed concerns<\/a> about the uptick in children identifying as transgender. \u201cGiving over to hormones on demand will result in many more cases of poor outcomes and many more disappointed kids and parents who somehow came to believe that giving kids hormones would cure their other psychological problems,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cIt won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the mainstream medical establishment has, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-early-trans-surgeries-hormones-are-crucial-for-kids-teens-who-identify-as-trans\">the White House<\/a>, fully embraced the fictional idea that gender transitioning and social support will cure children\u2019s psychological distress, this doesn\u2019t seem to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>One study reanalyzed raw data from a study concluding that transgender children with parental support have minimal mental differences from their peers. This new study <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0024363919884799\">determined<\/a> that \u201ctransgender children, even when supported by their parents, had significantly lower average scores on anxiety and self-worth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings,\u201d the authors concluded, \u201cshould serve as a warning against accepting research at a surface level, which can lead to acceptance of invalid information and pursuit of ineffective interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/gender\/report\/puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide\">report<\/a> from the Heritage Foundation found that the claims that early access to puberty blockers decreases suicide rates among transgender youth are likely inaccurate. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Jay Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/think-tank-report-questions-claims-that-puberty-blockers-hormones-prevent-suicide-among-trans-kids\">told<\/a> the Daily Wire that \u201cwhen the evidence is examined properly, it shows that making cross-sex treatments more widely available risks raising youth suicide rates rather than reducing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the proportion of transgender children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie says you can be whatever you want when you grow up \u2014 even transgender. Just in time for Pride Month, Mattel has debuted a doll modeled after Laverne Cox, transgender actor and 2014 \u201cGlamour\u201d magazine Woman of the Year. \u201cI hope all the kids who are feeling stigmatized when their healthcare is being jeopardized, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":798,"featured_media":1514131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514029","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\/1514029","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\/798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}