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American Girl angers parents with book teaching kids about gender expression
Angry parents have blasted a book from the American Girl doll brand that discusses body image and gender, claiming it’s pushing impressionable children to change their gender. “A Smart Girl’s Guide: Body Image: How to love yourself, live life to the fullest, and celebrate all kinds of bodies,” sets out to teach girls to “live comfortably in their own skin,” according to American Girl — but some parents disagree. “Incredibly disappointed in your book ‘Body Image’ Let these little girls be little girls. Stop the disgusting push to introduce topics too mature. It is NOT your place,” one mother wrote on Twitter. The 96- page book explains to its targeted audience of girls ages 8 to 11 that, “The way you show your gender to the world through clothes and behaviors is your gender expression.” Read more at https://nypost.com/2022/12/07/america...
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Today we start by discussing the American Girl company turning its back on girls. Recently, American Girl started selling a book called "A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image" which actively encourages young girls who feel uncomfortable with their bodies to pursue gender transition. Not only does the book explicitly talk about puberty blockers for kids, it also has advice for how kids can deal with this with no input from their parents at all. It seems like American Girl went from telling young girls that being a girl is a good thing to telling them to simply stop being a girl if they don't like it. Then, we welcome our friend James Lindsay, author of "The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education," back to the show to discuss several things, including James' recent return to Twitter, the drama surrounding an old photo of him, and why leftists can't stand to be ignored. We also talk about the leftist "religion" in general, how leftists believe they can build a paradise on Earth if only we install the right government, and how the Left is manipulating language right now to push that goal along. This also explains why Christianity is such a thorn in the side of these people, because the truths handed down in the Bible are impervious to the Left's attempts at manipulation and control, thus undermining leftists' ability to control people.
BY MATT MARGOLIS
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
The body positivity movement sounds like a good thing, but as I’ve pointed out in the past, it’s been hijacked by famous fatties like Lizzo to essentially promote morbid obesity. And sadly, that’s not even the worst thing that the body positivity movement is doing.
It appears that the latest agenda of the body positivity movement is to push transgenderism on young girls.
American Girl dolls have been popular with young girls for decades and have traditionally taught them about American history. American Girl products also include books, a magazine, clothes, and even a film franchise. But, like so many other corporations, American Girl has gone woke, and now it’s pushing a radical agenda on children.
Smart Girl’s Guide: Body Image, written by American Girl author Mel Hammond, targets girls eight to 11 years old. It ironically teaches girls that if they’re uncomfortable in their bodies, they can change them.
“Parts of your body may make you feel uncomfortable and you may want to change the way you look,” one passage reads. “That’s totally OK!”
“You can appreciate your body for everything it allows you to experience and still want to change certain things about it,” the book adds.
And Hammond isn’t talking about getting ears pierced or wearing makeup. On the very same page, the book teaches girls they can talk to their doctor about going on puberty blockers if they are confused about their gender identity.
“If you haven’t gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body’s changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity,” the book reads.
One passage, shared in a review on Amazon, explicitly promotes radical leftist gender theory:
While gender expression is what you show on the outside, gender identity is how you feel on the inside–a girl, a boy, or someone who doesn’t quite ft into either category. When a baby is born, a doctor looks at the baby’s body parts to assign its sex-whether the baby is female or male. Most kids grow up feeling comfortable in the sex the doctor assigned. This kind of person is cisgender. (Say it sis-jen-dur.) But for some, that assigned sex doesn’t match who they know they are inside. A kid who was assigned as male might know herself to be a girl inside, for example. Someone whose gender is different than the sex they were assigned at birth is transgender. Some people don’t feel like a girl or a boy inside which is totally OK! People in this group are usually called nonbinary and might use a pronoun like they instead of he or she.
The book also tells these young, impressionable girls to seek these treatments without parental consent. “If you don’t have an adult you trust, there are organizations across the country that can help you. Turn to the resources on page 95 for more information,” Hammond advises.
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Sadly, this isn’t terribly shocking. Mattel, the parent company of American Girl, has already released transgender Barbies. But now they’ve taken their grooming to a whole new disturbing level.