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Mattel has joined the transgender bandwagon. It remains to be seen whether their trans Barbie will boost sales. How does this development promote a healthy body image or model authentic biology to children?

Transgender Barbie is now available for purchase.

Toy giant Mattel announced this week that they ‘couldn’t be more excited’ about the trans doll.

Well of course. What could be more exciting than Ken, realising he was a Barbie trapped in a Ken’s body, finally being able to exist as her authentic plastic self?

A Mattel spokesperson said the transgendered children’s doll highlighted diversity and inclusion and acceptance and blah, blah, you know the drill.

Plastic World

Mattel did not clarify whether it was a pre-op or post-op Barbie. And it would have been impolite to ask.

But the announcement immediately raised questions as to how anyone would know the new Barbie was transgendered, since the dolls have never had genitalia.

Is it just Ken with breasts and a wig? Or is it regular Barbie, but taller and with larger hands and feet?

Speaking of Ken, he has apparently friend-zoned the new Barbie.

But putting Ken’s transphobia to one side, once the transgendered Barbie is unpacked, it’s just a barbie, with no genitals.

So it’s hard to think of this as anything but unwanted virtue signalling from a toy company wanting to sell plastic rubbish to hollow liberal Wokes.

The logic of a transgendered Barbie is completely flawed.

If the new gender theory insists that trans women are women, as it does, then why make a Ken that’s supposedly transitioned into a Barbie? Why not just make a Barbie?

Whatever. It’s stunning and brave.

Or is it?

Irony

I’m not so sure trans people should be applauding Mattel for taking their plastic sex-stereotyped representation of a woman — that looks like no real woman ever did — and using it to represent transwomen. That seems like a bit of an own goal to me.

The new Barbie is based on the likeness of Laverne Cox, the transgendered star of US prison comedy Orange is the New Black.

After a difficult upbringing, Cox has forged a successful acting career appreciated by people around the world. No decent person would want anything but the very best for Cox.

But the wisdom of making Cox’s gender confusion a role model for children is another matter entirely.

The whole thing begs the question, who exactly was clamouring for a transgendered Barbie in the first place?

Is this something little girls have been wanting?

Or is it something woke suits in a corporate boardroom decided was necessary to demonstrate their DIE (diversity, inclusion and equity) credentials, regardless of whether or not it was in the best interests of children?

One thing we do know is that poor sales will be blamed on transphobia.

Oh, and one final note …

I know that progressives will ridicule us for being worried about Barbies. It’s a classic sleight of hand that they have perfected.

First they insist that a trans Barbie will make a big difference.

Then they produce a trans Barbie.

Finally, when conservatives complain about said Barbie, they say “Why are you so worried about a kids’ doll? What difference does a Barbie make?”

It’s not about a toy. It’s about the undermining of norms. They know it. And we know it.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.
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