A project of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at the University of Minnesota has developed a new tool for helping so-called “transgender children” to become comfortable with their bodies—a product line of paper dolls with interchangeable genitalia.
“MyGender Dolls are a first-of-their-kind therapeutic play approach designed for gender diverse children ages 4–10,” explains the product website which claims that the dolls are “Built to help children tell their stories and see themselves represented” and “promote resilience, confidence, and joy through structured, engaging play.”
In addition to interchangeable genitals, the dolls also come with a large array of customizable accessories including outfits and hairstyles to accommodate a diversity of gender presentations and come in a wide range of skin tones. The dolls are deliberately given names that could belong to either gender such as “Sam.”
After the New York Post and Fox News both published stories about the doll’s potential use in Minnesota classrooms, leftist media outlets immediately proceeded to declare the story a moot point that was exaggerated by right-wing commentators for political purposes.
“5 EYEWITNESS NEWS called the 19 largest school districts in the seven counties that make up the Twin Cities metro. Eight got back to us. Seven out of eight had never heard of the MyGender Dolls project and none planned to use it,” reported a local ABC news station.
“We reached out to the governor’s office, which told us in a text that Governor ‘Walz has no connection to this program and it’s not being implemented by the state,’” the station’s reporting added.
While the use of MyGender Dolls in Minnesota classrooms may or may not be imminent, the vehement denials are intriguing considering Governor Walz’s previous record of promoting all things trans.
Minnesota’s far-left governor was nicknamed “Tampon Tim” after he signed a law requiring Minnesota’s public schools to make free pads and tampons available for “all menstruating students” in grades 4-12. The use of “menstruating students” instead of females was a deliberate choice by Minnesota Democrats who rejected Republican efforts to amend the bill to specify that it only applied to female or gender neutral restroom facilities.
At the time, Leftists endorsed the nickname, with NPR running an August 2024 article titled “Why Republicans are calling Walz ‘Tampon Tim’ — and why Democrats embrace it.”
Walz has also repeatedly made clear that he is fully on board with the most bizarre aspects of trans ideology. The LGBTQ organization GLAAD has frequently celebrated Walz’s efforts on behalf of their constituencies, declaring that “Under Minnesota’s pro-equality legislative and executive branches, Governor Walz, Lt. Governor Flanagan, and the Queer Legislators Caucus built the state into a national model for protecting the healthcare access and human rights of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, especially transgender, non-binary and 2-Spirit residents.”
GLAAD also notes Walz’s efforts to make Minnesota a “Trans Refuge State” and highlights the governor’s “executive order to protect those traveling to Minnesota to receive gender-affirming care” and additional legal measures “protecting patients, families, and providers from out-of-state laws punishing trans health care access.”
Under Walz’s infamously poor leadership, not only were billions wasted in Somali fraud schemes but male students who identify as female have been and still are allowed to play on women’s and girls’ sports teams—something that Walz pledged not to change after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states have the right to ban trans-identifying males from competing in female sports.
And while Walz denies that public funds were used to develop the MyGender Dolls, the University of Minnesota which hosts the Eli Coleman Institute that developed the dolls undeniably receives both state and federal funding.
So it is curious that after years supporting the trans agenda, Governor Walz would not defend—much less require—the use of MyGender Dolls and other tools of trans indoctrination in Minnesota’s public school classrooms.
Shouldn’t ‘Tampon Tim’ be standing up for the vulnerable trans preschoolers who might benefit from this therapeutic tool? Shouldn’t Minnesota children be taught that anyone can be a boy or a girl, no matter what genitals and chromosomes they were born with?
Despite his dismal failure as a vice-presidential candidate in 2024, many media outlets are already positing that Governor Walz is planning a run at the Democrat presidential nomination in 2028. And Walz himself has not denied it. When asked by The New Yorker last March about a potential bid at the presidency, he responded, “If I think I could offer something . . . I would certainly consider that.”
Is it possible that ‘Tampon Tim’ is attempting to moderate his extreme stance on trans issues to make himself more palatable to mainstream Democrats who might get upset at public schools telling their four-year-olds that changing their sex is as simple as swapping genitals on a paper doll? Someone ought to tell Governor Walz that it is far too late.
Image credit: MyGender website.