{"id":1771797,"date":"2022-12-12T03:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771797"},"modified":"2022-12-12T03:17:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:17:39","slug":"american-girls-politicized-product-lines-began-long-before-its-latest-gender-bending-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-girls-politicized-product-lines-began-long-before-its-latest-gender-bending-book\/","title":{"rendered":"American Girl\u2019s Politicized Product Lines Began Long Before Its Latest Gender-Bending Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Famerican-girls-politicized-product-lines-began-long-before-its-latest-gender-bending-book%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=1771797&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>The popular doll company, American Girl, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11513307\/American-Girl-book-Body-Image-comes-criticism-promotion-puberty-blockers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released a new book \u201cA Smart Girl\u2019s Guide: Body Image,\u201d containing controversial advice promoting puberty blockers to prepubescent girls.<\/a> Rather than teaching its target audience of girls older than 10 to accept the natural progression of female puberty, the text states, \u201cYou can appreciate your body and everything it allows you to experience and still want to change certain things about it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Outraged parents claim the book\u2019s description of hormone suppressants as \u201cmedicine\u201d doctors can prescribe to provide uncomfortable tweens \u201c\u2026more time to think about their gender identity\u201d falsely characterizes the irreversible treatment as temporary, failing to convey the permanence of such choices to those who lack a comprehensive understanding of puberty itself.<\/p>\n<p>The legal demarcation between childhood and adulthood exists because there is a societal consensus that children are not developmentally equipped to make life-altering decisions. However, there has been increasing initiative in the United States to transfer the authority to make significant medical decisions to minors. This is exemplified on page 95 of the book, which provides resources for young girls to subvert the control of their parents to pursue transgender medical interventions.<\/p>\n<p>Author Mel Hammond\u2019s 96-page illustrated handbook is latest addition to American Girl\u2019s long-running \u201cSmart Girls Guide\u201d series that emerged in the early 2000s. The series focused on topics exclusive to girlhood, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/bkCMCiZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">friendship troubles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smart-Girls-Starting-Middle-School\/dp\/158485877X\/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=0b459610-ebb4-41ef-b4dc-e771bbd37b7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">starting middle school<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smart-Girls-Guide-Knowing-American\/dp\/1593697724\/ref=asc_df_1593697724\/?tag=hyprod-20&#038;linkCode=df0&#038;hvadid=265936287992&#038;hvpos=&#038;hvnetw=g&#038;hvrand=5326869614552464048&#038;hvpone=&#038;hvptwo=&#038;hvqmt=&#038;hvdev=m&#038;hvdvcmdl=&#038;hvlocint=&#038;hvlocphy=9009968&#038;hvtargid=pla-434100937190&#038;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">knowing what to say<\/a>. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Care-Keeping-You-American-Library\/dp\/0613113837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Care and Keeping of You<\/a>\u201d was the original American Girl puberty book, objectively explaining these physical changes through a lens of female empowerment. The illustrated cover of three young girls in towels is etched into the minds of millennial women, who relied on this guidebook to navigate the awkward stages of metamorphosis.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, many books in the \u201cSmart Girls Guide\u201d series were republished to reflect changes in American culture. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smart-Girls-Internet-American-Library\/dp\/1593695993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Smart Girl\u2019s Guide to the Internet<\/a>\u201d (2009) was retitled to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americangirl.com\/products\/smart-girls-guide-digital-world-fhl13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Smart Girl\u2019s Guide: Digital World<\/a><em>\u201d <\/em>(2017). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smart-Girls-Guide-Boys\/dp\/1584853689\/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=59693603967&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQiAkMGcBhCSARIsAIW6d0BOR9W_KAtaq1PhN0qt4oIUAZw8COu38OcSK6rBiccqw9GKLzA8GQQaAun0EALw_wcB&#038;hvadid=580747677759&#038;hvdev=m&#038;hvlocphy=9009968&#038;hvnetw=g&#038;hvqmt=e&#038;hvrand=198992395625514731&#038;hvtargid=kwd-301111531193&#038;hydadcr=16246_13521238&#038;keywords=a+smart+girls+guide+to+boys&#038;qid=1670445376&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Smart Girl\u2019s Guide to Boys<\/a>\u201c<em> <\/em>(2001) was revamped as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americangirl.com\/products\/a-smart-girl-guide-crushes-gnw14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Smart Girl\u2019s Guide to Crushes<\/a><em>\u201c<\/em> (2020) to include homosexual relationships. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americangirl.com\/products\/a-smart-girls-guide-body-image-book-hgv01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Smart Girl\u2019s Guide: Body Image<\/a>\u201c<em> <\/em>(2022) replaced \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Care-Keeping-You-American-Library\/dp\/0613113837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Care and Keeping of You<\/a>\u201d (1998). Gender-bending was not presented as an option in the 1998 puberty guide.<\/p>\n<p> Dolls of American History <\/p>\n<p>American Girl established itself as a brand based on a premise identifiable by its nomenclature. Founded by Pleasant Rowland in 1986, the company started out selling 18-inch dolls reflective of critical periods in American history. Each doll came dressed in clothing reflective of their designated era, accompanied by a book telling the story of the character\u2019s experience as a young girl growing up during historical circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>American Girl\u2019s original stories focused on the personal struggles of young girls in history, but this literature did not attempt to equate these struggles to the triumphs of notable historical figures. These books were educational tools that humanized people of the past and broadened the reader\u2019s perspective. Young girls could visualize historical eras because they could easily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As customers reject traditional American values and celebrations of biological girlhood, the company adapts to remain profitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1616,"featured_media":1771800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4123,5297,6919,7944,6060,7942,7943,7941],"class_list":["post-1771797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-american","tag-book","tag-federalist","tag-gender-bending","tag-girls","tag-lines","tag-politicized","tag-product"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771797","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\/1616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}