People have been cancelling AG for YEARS over different things (having a doll who was homeless for a time in 2009, having Kira have two aunts, etc.). It's so ridiculous and I'm happy to see that AG don't stoop to their level just to make more money Also, AG has a PLETHORA of white dolls and a 6y/o looks so generic that I'm genuinely surprised she couldn't find one that looks like her, he might be lying on that one tbh.
@@complainer406 tasteless maybe, bringing awareness to an issue yes. People were too busy being outraged by a homeless doll than the 2.5million homeless children in the US. American Girl did (and probably does still) donate to HomeAid, a charity that finds housing for homeless.
The guy complaining about no white girl dolls makes me laugh (at the guy, not the little girl). That’s what Latines, African-Americans, Asians and other minorities went through for YEARS (and still to this day in some places). I would have love a doll that looked like me as a child, the only doll that looked closet to me was Yasmín from Bratz.
lets not even touch the fact that he is probably exagerating a ton, as they still have a ton of options, and the most off it coul be is the haircut, or just a few skin shades
These people just want to be oppressed 🙄 They view oppression as the only thing we don't have, and want to take that away from BIPOC too...which is just stupid 😂
That asshole was a 100% lying racist, and I’d love to see someone fact-check and expose him by going to the same store and taking video of all the white dolls available.
Also, he's just plain _wrong._ He's a lying sack of trash. There's no less than 11 white girl dolls, compared to 5 Black dolls, two Latina dolls, three Asian dolls, a Native American doll, and a Pacific Islander doll. That's not even counting the fact that you can make custom dolls (as in, you can make dolls that _look just like your daughter,_ you fake news bag of wind!), and that the original set of American Girls wasn't some "Oh, isn't the dolly so sweet, it looks just like my little darling girl!!!" thing. To act like that's all they are is forgetting where they came from and what they continue to be, with their "Girl of the Year" line. They were meant to be _HISTORICAL._ They were about characters who went through hardships, and grew and became stronger, better people. A Swedish immigrant learning to adapt to her new life in America during the 1850s. A Colonial girl forced to choose between her Loyalist friend and Patriot family during the Revolutionary War. A Victorian-era New England orphan taken in by her high-society grandmother, learning and growing up in a world marked by classism, women's suffrage, and child labor, as she befriends one of the servants. A girl living during WWII, whose father winds up fighting in the war, while her family learns to make it through with her mother taking on a job as the primary breadwinner, and having to experience rationing and all the fears that go with living during a war. An escaped slave, who confronts themes of racism in her stories, but also familial love and freedom. The list goes on: a girl from the Great Depression, a Jewish girl growing up during WWI, a Hawaiian girl whose story picks up right before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I owned original-release Molly McIntire and Felicity Merriman dolls (wow, I feel old saying that, seeing as the line started in 1986!), and I loved that they were both very different from me, and had these wonderful stories that came with them, full of lessons learned and families that loved each other no matter their struggles. American Girls are and have always been about being accepting, about learning to respect differences. If this skeevy liar of a false journalist can't handle his precious baby seeing diversity in a _doll,_ then I shudder to think what he might be teaching her about the world she lives in.
Seeing people your age, my parents age, look at things like this in a supportive light warms my heart❤ thank you so much and an early merry Christmas to you
The problem is a lot of people don't understand that children don't belong to them you're raising another human being with their own thoughts and opinions not a clone
they still your child tho wtf are u even saying? They cant just do whatever they want until they are of legal age, no one told them they cant think or have opinions
@@RandomUser36536 i love how yall try to dress this shit up like its wholesome or a learning experience. A trans kid doll is not a normal thing to introduce to a kid. Genital mutilation and hormone therapy isnt some shit you tell kids is normal for them to do. They don't know any better
@Shining Kimmy Puberty blockers make kids stupid. People get a huge boost of intelligence during puberty. Puberty blockers make kids mentally handicapped in comparison to their peers and it's permanent too because you crippled them when they were in school
@Shining Kimmy yeah I agree with you personally I feel like surgery that isn't for medical purposes should go up to 20 just so that if its plastic surgery or gender surgery they know they want to do it Btw feel free to try to change my opinion I enjoy hearing other opinions and I might change my mind!
I'm AFAB and had the book about puberty and it was so helpful! from learning about sanitary products and using them correctly to different types of bras and how breasts formed it was crazy. Sure I got embarrassed sometimes reading it when I was in that stage but it wasnt that down your throat about any bias/ side of politics. The Body image book is something me growing up would've LOVED getting for sure
Yeah, I had AG’s The Caring & Keeping of You book and it helped a lot. They came out with a second one I think when I was in high school/college. I don’t remember the body image book when I was young, but I would have loved that as someone who’s still dealing with body image issues
Having a book about puberty is very good for children. My mom bought me one called 'period' when I was seven or eight (she started menstruating when she was 9, and figured it was best to be sure I had the information early just in case) and the only reason I didn't buy it for my daughter is that my mom beat me to it.
@@elguerokabron Being mindful of different cultures is weird to you? And I just looked it up, apart from this controversy, they seem to be doing well enough.
That dad could've used the moment of not finding a doll that looks like his daughter as a moment to teach empathy for the fact that so many girls have that experience almost every day but he chose to do what he did lol
He was definitely lying AG has a lot of white dolls. Kira, Julie, kit, Samantha, Rebecca, Courtney, Maryellen, let’s not forget all the truly me’s that are white as well. But just name a few, truly me 116, 115, 105, 101, 102, 104, 103, 107, and 100! But you’re comment is correct he should have took the opportunity to help her learn about different cultures, ethnicity’s, and inclusion.
@@TessesKingdom you can get dolls that look like you, it may not be under AG, I can't remember but still, you can customize dolls, I had a doll that looked like me, I'm white, white dolls exist, and customizable dolls exist
Im an AFAB nonbinary trans masc guy who grew up with American girl doll stuff. This video and book made me cry, because if I'd gotten that book as a kid, I wouldn't have gone through as much anguish and confusion over who I was. Some kids like me are gonna need the words from this book, and I'm so grateful they can get it if they need it.
Same, so much same, i nearly cried watching this too, im so happy this book exists so kids can learn about these things and not have to go through as much as we did Have great day fellow trans masc enby!
Another fellow trans masc enby here - I agree. This would have saved me at least a decade of anguish and confusion. Even just being told plainly what puberty was going to do to my body where my parents/education system had failed. It would have made a world of difference.
When I was like 8 and living under a rock I had two AG dolls and I unintentionally made one of them trans so that they could be in a straight relationship. I genuinely said to my sister "he cut his hair so he's a boy now" and looking back on that I think it's really funny
It's funny the way kids think sometimes. Two girls dating wasn't a possibility, but transitioning is fair game. Reminds me that the trans/homophobes are wrong when they say how much it'll confuse kids. Kids are some of the most open minded people
I remember only having girl barbies so i made one a guy and also w of them were in a lesbian relationship 😭😭😭 i mean i was also regularly pretending to drown them in my sink, so i think i was just a weird kid in general
Looking back now I realize my favorite snivy plushie was kinda trans? At first I thought of them as a boy, but in pokepark 2 the snivy in that game was a girl (that the other pokemon initially mistook for a boy) and 8yo me was like :o omg cool now my snivy is a girl too!! lol
I was given a pinkish/purple teddy bear on my 4th birthday (We are now in our 30's). I've never once thought of him as a girl bear even though that's what everyone else saw, just like they saw a little girl when they looked at me. His name is Joey, my mother got him at a yard sale and he was a girl to the kid who had him before me. Joey was a gay trans boy at a time before I'd even heard the word Transgender and was completely confused about why I felt such a strong connection to the LGBTQ+ community. I knew something about me was a little different but I just didn't have the words or understanding to express how I felt so Joey did it for me.
14:35 Interesting how the same people who are angry over diversity in shows and are trying to deprive children of being able to grow up seeing characters, in shows, that are like them are also the same people who throw a hissy fit when their daughter can’t get an American Girl Doll that looks like her.
Representation for me, not for thee. They're the most important, so their representation is the most important, and anyone else getting any is subtracting from theirs
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The whole big deal about representation is kind of insulting because this indirectly implies that the characters I saw growing up with were not "like me" just because they weren't the same ethnicity as me. I wasn't really "deprived" of anything, I was able to relate to characters because they were great characters and I was able to relate to them and their experiences. Never crossed my mind that "they don't have the same looking skin as me" until I got in school and I learned about race issues in history. Characters being something other than white was always going to increase naturally as the population became more diverse, this weird prioritizing of representation just seems condescending to me.
I read multiple of the American Girl nonfiction books about puberty and mental health and coming of age when i was in middle school, and I wish this was published a decade ago. Being told not everyone feels like a girl or a boy would have been... amazing.
I'm cis and that section about how to feel at home in your body even when you want to change parts about it actually made me tear up. I'm 22 and am still learning to take that advice. I'm 6'3" and have a highly fluctuating weight due to medical conditions (typically on the overweight side, fluctuating into the upper end of "normal") and I often struggle to feel happy with myself right now even though I'm working to change things about myself. I actually wrote down those tips as advice for myself later because I think it will help
@@tanishabrown2520 Sexuality≠Sexual activities. Like... You can tell your parents about what gender you're attracted to WITHOUT telling them about your sexual life
My dad thought he was doing things right, but even being forced to hide my ADHD around him, was hard. I wish it was talked about more, that parents can be scary sometimes.
to the guy who was saying the couldn’t find a doll that looked like his daughter, does he know you can literally create your own completely custom doll? you can make your own doll with whatever features you want like it’s not that hard lmao and as someone who’s nonbinary and who’s mom is an ag doll collector this makes me super happy to see, i definitely would’ve tried to point out the book to here if there was still a store in our area, but i’m glad nonetheless :] super slay of ag, hope they keep that up
That part was wild, he really said “there weren’t enough white dolls, it’s been woke-ified” like yikes dude, really saying the quiet part out loud there. Not to mention that white people have been catered to at the exclusion of nearly everyone else for centuries, so maybe his daughter will survive lol.
duuude ur mom sounds so cool (from someone who has 3 dolls and wants more), love that for u ❤💜 also yeah it's so dumb of him to purposefully ignote the CYO line
It sounded like he wanted to get one of the twin dolls (I think that’s what the custom lookalikes are called) but didn’t know how to and didn’t want to admit it lmao
I had a few American Girl dolls during my childhood and loved them. I’m so happy that they’re talking about the trans experience and helping kids out! We love inclusion 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️
Honestly I don't stan companies but it's really nice to see ONE company stay true to their original purpose and decide to be on the right side of history
Great commentary! I made a video a few months ago about AG’s LGBT representation including this book, and because of this recent controversy I’ve gotten a few transphobic comments, and as you said in the video, sex has different meanings! So many collectors have purchased the book to show their support for American girl and I just hope that they don’t stop talking about topics like this because of conservative right wing mom groups.
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As a non binary person to have this book when I was going through puberty😢 I was soooo uncomfortable and confused and ashamed for not feeling comfortable in my body.
I am a creator on doll Instagram. It is mostly American girl. Most common reactions were either praise or people saying something along the lines of “I won’t be buying this book because I don’t understand it personally/ because of my religion/ because I don’t think it is important but I understand why people like it and support it.” Honestly most people are lovely on there and how wholesome it is surprises me sometimes Edit: as I’m watching the video I wanted to add that some of the collectors have over 150-200 American girl dolls
I’m a collector too and have 35 18” AGs currently. I had taken a break on IG and came back to the AG post with the backlash comments. I did try to defend the book and AG but also could only do so much and decided I needed to go back to my break (there was another non-AG reason for going back on break). I also have a doll YT channel (not this one).
@@wintersprite I don’t collect American girl bcz I’m in the uk but most other accounts on there do. I collect a girl for all time dolls. I might not be in deep enough to really see it but everyone now seems to be having healthy discussions rather than the usual social media messages of ‘you are an evil person bcz of ur opinion’
This book is going to save lives. I got my daughter and AG doll for the first time this year because she’s been asking for one for months (AG dolls were something I always wanted and could never afford growing up). I’m even more excited now. This book is going to be her birthday present. Edit:trying to meet transphobia with kindness and connection, chime in with the same below.
@@rhymerlegend2717 you’ve obviously never worked with children. I have. At-risk kids’ mentor for 19 years here, K-8 teacher for six. It’s going to save lives.
Seeing the reviews for the book is heartbreaking. If I had this when I was younger it would help me so much. When I was 8 and hit puberty, I hated myself and had terrible depression. I spent all my days inside, not talking to anyone, rarely even talking to my own family. I never got sex ed from school, I never was told anything. I struggled with bad thoughts for years and I didn’t know why and I couldn’t talk to anyone. I even read AG books when I was younger. Seeing so many people hate on a book that could save lives makes me so frustrated. Thank you for talking about this.
i always loved american girl as a kid. they made inclusion such a natural thing and i really think that it helped me become such a compassionate person. i’m so glad that they didn’t back down on trying to educate everyone of all ages on things that are around them and help them to be sympathetic to everyone around them. i had a subscription to the magazine for around 3 years when i was a kid and it was a lot of stuff like this, teaching kids to feel comfortable with who they are, telling stories from the experience of many different people and more. it helped me learn about experiences of people with disabilities, people of other cultures, and generally just made me understand that these are just normal things in life. i also loved the books, movies, and dolls which do a lot of the same things.
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this is so cute. such a simple way to help younger kids understand the idea of gender identity. and honestly with the way it’s written i feel like it could be a great tool for parents who wanna have these conversations with their children. i’d totally buy this for my kid and i to read together.
that last page actually made me tear up my relationship to my body is pretty complicated being enby, so hearing that it's okay to appreciate your body and still wanna change it really means alot to me ;-;
Imagine raising your child to be their own person and allowing them to have their own opinions 👀 American girl books are a staple in almost every afab person I know's life growing up, including mine. I wish I'd had these books as a kid but I'm glad they are out there now.
Honestly this seems so sweet and nice. If I had this book as a little kid I would've probably discovered I was trans a lot sooner. Imagine being mad about a book telling kids to explore. Isn't that what kids do?
Yeah…and kids are fundamentally stupid, that’s why their desire to explore is dangerous. Imagine getting upset about a book telling them to do the one thing that gets them in trouble the most.
@@sabersin5368-c2c exploring yourself is wildly different than exploring the dangerous world around you, there's no way to get hurt by exploring yourself lmao
@@arcadiaberger9204 I never understood why people get mad at trolls and then use the word as an insult. Don't you realize that you're getting out smarted?
@@Harudodo Exploring yourself is fucking worse, you want kids to explore their gender identity or sexual orientation for the sake of a minority group that are born with genetic malfunctions.
Even as a cis girl, I would have preferred to have had puberty later. Like around the time I was way more prepared to deal with it and have had more time to process it. I went through so much stress with it when it first started and it was so stressful. Like it was only a couple of months after we had the videos in school and those weren’t even enough information. So much they missed.
yeah I'm trans masc but my first puberty was way too early at 9 years old. It was so much to go through so fast; there wasn't really time to process how I felt about my gender because suddenly I was filled out and there was no way to think "what if I didn't have to be". This 'second puberty' has been amazing, especially being 33 and able to manage everything so much better.
@@hexonyou so damn true! Seriously, I’ve looked into puberty blockers and seen the panicks people have had about them too and omg lemme just say they would go into cardiac arrest if they found out what my adhd meds do to you. Like kids the age of 6 go on them. Side afects include accelerated heart rate, high blood pressure, higher risk of heart attack and for the people with cirtan disabilities and mental illness, psychosis and seizures. Those are actually pushed on kids by parents and it creates an unhealthy relationship with that kids medication to the point the resent it. Like it’s something you have to take no matter what and there’s no option to get on something else or change dosage. That’s how you get kids dumping them down the drain. Not to mention its often treated as a cure all for adhd and if a parent still sees signs of it they up the dose. It’s like hello why not look at an actual issue and listen to kids more instead of being transphobic?? Ugg I can go on. Stimulants are way worse and are what transphobes think puberty blockers are like. But those are safe if handed correctly. Luckily I do have a good relationship with my meds and I have direct control over them.
My school didn’t even say anything! They gathered us for a talk and explained the science behind hormones (as if a room full of 10 yr olds knows what that means) then said “females will see development in the chest and begin menstruation” AS IF THESE CHILDREN ARE GONNA KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. then they spent the rest of the lesson teaching us about being respectful and showing you’re paying attention when someone is speaking to you
Same. I started menstruating in 4th grade, before most, if not all, of the other girls in my class. It didn’t help my anxiety or self image at all (which I didn’t know until around five years ago that what I thought was just shyness was actually anxiety).
The words of that book are so comforting , to me, as a trans adult. If my parents had given it to me when I was younger, than I would assume they had at least skimmed it first, and feeling like they were giving me the green light to define my gender based on my inner voice and free of expectations. Instead, the explicit and implied expectations made my life much more difficult than it has/had to be. It's awful that people want to control their kids by making them free to express themselves, and many do these days, that's my takeaway of this (predictable) reaction to this educational media. But we've seen it time and again, how easy outrage is manufactured by the right- wing, how easily fascism takes over in an ignorant, ill-informed, economically depressed and frustrated populace. How easy people can be convinced to scapegoat a marginalized populace. P/s: There's no hate like Christian love.
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The excerpts from this book were so comforting and reassuring. It is so frustrating to hear the news report, "That's not body empowerment or girl empowerment. That's self loathing." It's funny to hear that because it is these same people who will insult women because they aren't feminine enough and insult men because they are too feminine. The strict roles society places on individuals to be causes self loathing not informing children that trans people exist. This book did an amazing job. I love the quote on that page called Gender Joy, "Luckily, it's not your job to look the way people expect - it's your job to be you."
American Girl has always been awesome. I didn't have this book as a kid but I had similar ones that were just as helpful. This company is BASED and clearly has the publics best interest at heart. Proud to consider that a big part of my childhood
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Elder Millennial Trans woman here. As someone who never had that cis childhood and a doll of her own, I might be indulging in a childhood desire of mine and buying one. Why? Because screw these culture warriors, that’s why.
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i went to an american girl doll store with my best friend a few weeks ago bc we wanted to revisit our childhoods and they had dolls with dyed hair, short hair, different skin tones, ethnic clothing, and wheelchairs and honestly it was so cute. it felt so welcoming. i had so much fun.
The American girl doll “puberty” book MORTIFIED me as a child and did a lot of emotional damage because it was to accept ‘learn how to and such being a woman’ … but seeing how they came out with this years and years later, honestly kind of heals that in some way.
@@Illogical_Tales I'm a trans guy and I was also mortified when taking about female puberty. For me, it's because I didn't want to accept that I would go through that. I didn't want boobs, or periods, or any of that. When I started going through puberty myself I was absolutely devastated
I’m not saying American Girl is perfect, but the educational books that they make are pretty solid and it’s nice that they have dolls from so many different backgrounds. Their puberty book was really educational and supportive, and I remember being so excited to be able to get a doll that was jewish just like me!
I’m literally passing my AG bitty Twins on to my baby sisters. I have the brunette boy/girl set and the only difference between them was that the girl had a little extra hair on top for a tiny ponytail. I used to pretend they were both boys or both girls all the time. That was freedom of imagination. I love American Girls. My whole life they were the first inclusive brand I knew of. And they have boy dolls that they added a couple years ago. If I had had the money and opportunity to make a truly me boy doll when I was a kid I would have in a heartbeat.
Little 11-12 year old me would have loved that book. I always knew something was wrong with my body and mind, it never felt right to me. After a while at the age of 16 i found the term "transgender" and i've finally knew why i've felt like this. It practically safed my life, i came out to my mom she accepts me and said that ill still be her child, even though i won't be her daughter anymore she will accept me as her son. It made me very happy. I'm 21 now still feeling like this, i already planned how i want to start my journey. Currently im looking into the dgti-supplemental ID card which is 19,90€ currently it's a headstart for me to start coming out to others without going into detail. Then i'll slowly build up my journey to legally changing my name and my gender on all legal documents. After that i'll look into therapy to get T-shots. Transphobes are ruining these chances for children who are trans, it's deadly and harmful. Children aren't dumb, i've met plently who are smart and more open to topics adults usually are part of (politics etc.) children deserve the right to their own identity, transphobes need to mind their business.
It not only helps trans kids discover themselves, but also helps cis kids understand their trans peers and have their backs. Education is the cure to discrimination
Honestly, I consider it borderline abusive to withhold education from your children, trans or cis, especially in topics like health. Being offended by human bodies existing shouldn't give you the right to force someone else to be ignorant of how their body and the world around them works.
I used to hate American Girl Doll because I was a rebellious little girl, ohhh I didnxxt like pink! Me now, being a genderqueer person, and pink is so pretty. But now that I see this. I WISH I had American Girl Doll when I was younger. I wish I had these books. This is so amazing and so good for kids to have. Also, GIRL. LITERALLY SLAY your makeup is soooo good
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The thing I never understand about this is, no one is forcing your child to read these books or go to Drag Queen story time. If you don’t want them to be exposed to that then don’t expose them to it. Although I think it’s incredibly sad that you’re “protecting” your child from learning about themselves and the world around them.
i grew up with american girl dolls, reading that care and keeping of you book or whatever it was that had a bunch of afab puberty stuff in it. and honestly, that was for more """"sexualized"""" than what anything in the section about trans stuff included. im genderqueer today and really love the idea of this book. one of the first exposures i had to trans people was a random passerby getting called the t-slur by my mom and me not knowing what that meant. the whole "woke groomer mob" bullshit is setting us so far back, and it is scary. having this book as a very well-worded and well-informed option for trans kids, and even cis kids, is just great as a teaching tool. i'm glad ag didn't back down on this.
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They don't actually care about "sexualizing". They're just trying to call queer people gross but they're manipulative enough to avoid saying what they mean.
so the crowd who thinks "cancelling" is wrong and horrible, is .... cancelling a company? lmao...anway, i had to pause halfway through to go check the book out on AG's site and unfortunately there really is a bunch of backlash in the reviews. i wrote them an email on the "contact us" page to let them know that it is a fantastic book. i think the more we let them know that its a good thing, the more likely it is to stay up (even tho apparently they arent thinking of taking it down anyway). we need to show them how important this book is for us even as adults. flood them with positivity !!! thank you samantha for making this vid, i wouldnt have known about this book otherwise!
There are some people who are serious collectors of American Girl stuff, and a few of them just actually died when you confused them with Cabbage Patch Dolls. They just went very still, a drop of blood leaked out of their noses, and a few seconds later, they fell over dead.
Been watching your videos for a while and I wanted to say that you are a wonderful advocate. I know times are tough for our community but with advocates like you fighting for our rights I do believe there will be a brighter future for all of us. Continue to be amazing! (Also I totally see you working at the United Nations on behalf of trans advocacy sometime in the future :) )
honestly im super impressed by American girls' inclusivity and how well they handled the topic. i would have loved to have this when i was a younger, since i only really learned about nonbinary identities within the last two or three years. my parents are super supportive, but it just never really occured to them to teach me, so i had to learn through people like OneTopic when i was already entering my mid-teens
I love your videos. That is all. Okay, one more thing: I wish I had these books when I was growing up a sad, bullied, abused cis girl. Just the idea of making your body a home where you feel good is making me want to cry. It's probably part of why I feel the need to stand up for LGBTQIA people. Plus, it turns out I'm a Romantic Ace, but I didn't find that out until later. And the first person I told (a bisexual woman) had a meltdown and basically told me there was no such thing as an asexual, she was abused and she came out just fine (I never said I was sexually abused), and I just hadn't found the right person yet. I was 49. And then I truly, finally knew what it was like to have my entire existence discounted and erased. That was an important experience for me. I finally had some hint of what LGBTQ+ people deal with on the daily.
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“Gender dysphoria” is the proper medical term to use when describing someone in a situation like that. “Transgender” on the other hand, is the term used when someone has physically transitioned. Aside from that, The content of that American Girl book is GREAT!!!
10:54 can we just appreciate the quote in the corner? I think it sums it all up perfectly. “being transgender isn’t a medical transition. it’s a process of learning to love yourself for who you are."
It's such bullshit that people think hiding things from your parents is always a bad thing. There are legitimately children who have been beaten, killed, kicked out, and etcetera because of their identity. Like it or not, sometimes keeping things from the people who have so much control over your life is keeping you safe.
That book is the sweetest thing at 11/12 years old I first learned about jazz and her whole story it helped me learn more about the world outside my tiny home town and over the years I’ve been able to make some great friends because I kept an open mind to what other people are going through a lot of the girls getting these dolls are upper middle class white girls honestly a force to be reckoned with im glad they’re getting the opportunity to learn outside what they’re growing up around and being shielded from
Back in the day it was controversial to give your kid a book about menstruation..parents judged other parents who gave books instead of actually talking to their kids.
If that news guy couldn’t find a doll that looked like his white child, he wasn’t looking hard enough. Blonde white dolls are the most common. Plus, you can literally have a custom doll made to look like you.
I was really into American girl dolls as a kid and I wish I had these books they seem really good for young girls and the transgender stuff in this one would’ve helped my understanding a lot
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I bought this book as soon as I found out about it. I am an avid AG adult collector and since my channel's audience is American Girl collectors, I made a video about the book too. The book is so, so well done. It's actually transinclusive on so many more pages than just those three and it covers so many other important topics so well. As a ciswoman, I wanted to make sure I included perspectives from trans folks in any video I did, so I reached out to a friend whose friend began transitioning in pre-school. I hope I did the topic justice and I love that you're covering it since you have a much larger platform. Thanks for such a great video!
@@rhymerlegend2717 Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indic, Greece, Thailand, Maya, Inca, indigenous north american, and Inuit peoples did/still do have people who exist as either both genders, or neither genders. Both archaeologists and anthropologists acknowledge that so many cultures throughout history had people that did not fall into the gender binary (and non of this is to be confused with intersex by the way, it was solely gender). One of the oldest recorded story's in history literally had a mortal who identified as neither man nor woman save Ishtar when no one else could. I got two further facts for you, 1) the singular They has existed in the english language almost 200 years before the singular You, 2) languages are constantly evolving, the english dictionary today is way different than even the english dictionary 50 years ago, let alone 700 years ago when modern english began. So the take away is that non-binary people are who they are, and have existed for as long as humanity.
I love you so much for this! I’m a transgender man and I’ve seen so many transphobia about this topic. It made me so upset and I found this video and it made me cry a bit. I was so frustrated that people were talking down on us.
Sexuality was not mentioned once. This resource is beautiful for everyone, including trans kids. It just encourages kids to contextualise and express their feelings safely. That is it. Everything it says applies to cis kids too! I really cannot fathom how resource signposting is 'promoting' anything other than verbalising complex and overwhelming feelings that kids may have.
I've been looking back on a lot of moments in my childhood that really add up, now knowing that I'm trans. I remember picking out an American Girl Doll when I was younger and being so averse to and weirded out by the idea of buying a doll that looked anything like myself haha (I got Kaya instead, the Native American doll, because she had sick outfits and I really liked learning about Native American history at the time). I would have so loved a book like this; it took me such a long time to not only be introduced to the idea of trans / non-binary identities, but even longer to get good, accurate, helpful information about them.
We can't emphasize enough that they said that being cis was ok, "They're encouraging girls to change their sex" where? Are we talking about the same book?
If anyone is worried about their kids not going to them when issues arise, they should probably look inward rather than lashing out at the world around them.
I had the Felicity story books and activity book collection, but never had the doll or any other American Girl doll. Now my 36 year old agender self wants her more than ever!
Loads of people sell the dolls second hand online, and if they're a bit damaged they're usually easy to fix at home! There's loads of dolls (even Felicity) online for less than 60 dollars if ur ever able to get one ❤
The funniest thing about the guy not being able to find find a doll for his white daughter is that AG literally offers "create your own" dolls that you can customize the features of to look like you LOL. Like I get he just went to the store but when you're on TV you should probably idk DO YOUR RESEARCH LOL
That guy talking about how unreal it was to not see something that represents you... It's as if... That's what minorities have been experiencing all the time. The fact he's surprised reveals his privilege.
I’m so sad my mother didn’t get me this series from American girl. I got the “Care and Keeping of You” one which just made me depressed every time I read them. This series would have made things so much easier for a young trans guy like me :).
I had an American girl doll growing up (mine was actually named Samantha, lol) And they've always had books. That's a huge part of what I liked about them, was that each doll came with books about her. I was never as interested in the modern-day fiction books, but I did have some of the Smart Girl's Guides. I'm glad they're being more inclusive.
The whole comparing hrt to hard drugs reminds me of when I was a neurodivergent kid in the 2000-2010's who took Ritalin and my classmates would always repeat their parent's asinine beliefs that ADHD doesn't exist and that meds for it are addictive and compared it to meth which was hilarious to me because if I were addicted to my meds I don't think I would forget to take them for days and even weeks on end. Even as an adult I forget to take them all the damn time, heck I'm more addicted to coffee then I am ADHD medication.
Maybe consider looking into a monthly pill organizer/caddy. It's really helped me. I do screw up from time to time, but far less frequently. Now if only I could keep myself on track for filling my organizers each month, lol.
It's funnier to me that they call hrt "hard drugs" when all it is is taking a human body and giving it human hormones that we all have some of and changing the balance to be more like the opposite sex (which we're all more similar to than we think).
1) People often forget how controversial sex ed books are in general, there's usually a couple every year on the ALA's top 100 most banned and challenged books list. I'd consider "Our Bodies Ourselves" to be one of the first modern sex-ed books, even though it's for all ages, and that only first came out in 1970. Lots of people still seem to think that providing women, girls, and AFAB people more generally with detailed, accurate, and comprehensive information about their bodies is "too sexual". ( 2) I'm pretty sure one of the puberty books I had as a kid was by American Girl, and this was about 20 years ago. Yeah, it was a little awkward, especially reading it with my mom. But it was much better than anything I learned in school. 3) I teared up when you read that last part. They really did their DBT research, pointing out that you can appreciate your body but also want it to be different at the same time, and suggesting concrete actions that kids can do to feel better when they're distressed. They've done such a great job breaking down these concepts so that even little kids can understand and be comforted. Even though I'm cis, reading that just felt like a big hug to my younger self.
I love how AG had these little sections about gender identity AND they stood their ground about it. I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was an adult, but reading about gender identity would've been interesting to learn about as a kid.
Growing up my grandma was obsessed with buying me and my four sisters these dolls. I had three of them, one that looked like me, another that looked like other girls my age ( both white) but my favorite one was Josefina who is a Mexican American Girl. So I don’t understand his problem with not finding one that looks like his daughter. I loved Josefina and she couldn’t look less like me.
A bit off topic, but when my friend came out as a trans women I was so confused. My thoughts were literally ‘why would she want to be a girl? Why wouldn’t she want to be a boy, especially since she was amab.’ Turns out you don’t chose to be trans and turns out I’m a trans man. It all makes sense now
one thing i saw a while back that rlly stuck with me was "your kids didn't suddenly 'turn trans' once they moved out from your house, they're just safe from you and how you would react for the first time" just think about that
I love this video! Way to go American Girl for being so inclusive. From now on this is EXACTLY how I am explaining people who are trans to transphobes. Like they are 3 years old. Thank you Samantha ❤️
This book looks so great! My ex was really into American girl doll, and I’m sure my daughter will love it too! I can’t wait to show her this book to explain why her bonus mom is a mom too🎉😊
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I really can't rave about the AG Care and Keeping of you books enough. The original book had a LOT of useful information, from typical timelines, what to expect, how to keep yourself clean, bras and sizing, even menstrual products and how to use them. I had the book before I got puberty (like a year or two) and when it all started, it really helped me be less scared about my body and what it was doing, and it helped me communicate with my parents about what I needed to help. On a more serious note, the original care and keeping book introduced the idea of the bikini zone to me. It wasn't a big thing, just a note that was like "yo this is what it is, and that's your body and if someone is touching you there or is wanting to touch you there, you have every right to say no and tell someone." However, this little snippet helped me to notice someone was trying to hurt me and to get away before it got too far. Truly a lifesaver
I had American Girl dolls and the books growing up, mostly due to the fact that my mom loved them and got me into them too (we're both history nerds and this was when the dolls focused on points in American history). I'm an adult now, and grew out of them, but my mom still loves them. I'm looking forward to telling her about this because she'll probably use it as an excuse to buy one.
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I was obsessed with American Girl as a kid. I read every historical girl book the library had and burned through them. I even still own a few box sets. (Felicity was my fav) I have a very conservative Christian family and have spent the last few years learning and connecting with the queer community. Being able to look back on something I loved so much as a 22yr old now, and see that it’s still so loving and helpful towards the little girls who enjoy it is so heartwarming for me.
Idk if they still have it, but when I was a tween AG had a book, I think it was called Your Body and You, that was probably the most helpful information I ever received about puberty. The dolls are fucking expensive but their publications are great.
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@@7thavedrycleaners178 Burning books about transgender topics? Now where have I heard about that before...? 🤔 Something to do with Magnus Hirschfeld and the German Student Union on May 6th, 1933?
People have been cancelling AG for YEARS over different things (having a doll who was homeless for a time in 2009, having Kira have two aunts, etc.). It's so ridiculous and I'm happy to see that AG don't stoop to their level just to make more money
Also, AG has a PLETHORA of white dolls and a 6y/o looks so generic that I'm genuinely surprised she couldn't find one that looks like her, he might be lying on that one tbh.
When the brand is about selling a $250 doll that's supposed be like you, having a homeless one does sound a little tasteless
@@complainer406 tasteless maybe, bringing awareness to an issue yes. People were too busy being outraged by a homeless doll than the 2.5million homeless children in the US. American Girl did (and probably does still) donate to HomeAid, a charity that finds housing for homeless.
Julie was cancelled for having divorced parents.
If he went in the past couple weeks, they might have been out of some dolls because it's Christmas shopping season...
Also they have customs American girl dolls as an option or did when my sister was a kid
The guy complaining about no white girl dolls makes me laugh (at the guy, not the little girl). That’s what Latines, African-Americans, Asians and other minorities went through for YEARS (and still to this day in some places). I would have love a doll that looked like me as a child, the only doll that looked closet to me was Yasmín from Bratz.
lets not even touch the fact that he is probably exagerating a ton, as they still have a ton of options, and the most off it coul be is the haircut, or just a few skin shades
These people just want to be oppressed 🙄 They view oppression as the only thing we don't have, and want to take that away from BIPOC too...which is just stupid 😂
That asshole was a 100% lying racist, and I’d love to see someone fact-check and expose him by going to the same store and taking video of all the white dolls available.
There was a guy on TikTok that went into the exact same shop he claimed had no white dolls…and the first thing he saw were white dolls lol.
Also, he's just plain _wrong._ He's a lying sack of trash. There's no less than 11 white girl dolls, compared to 5 Black dolls, two Latina dolls, three Asian dolls, a Native American doll, and a Pacific Islander doll. That's not even counting the fact that you can make custom dolls (as in, you can make dolls that _look just like your daughter,_ you fake news bag of wind!), and that the original set of American Girls wasn't some "Oh, isn't the dolly so sweet, it looks just like my little darling girl!!!" thing. To act like that's all they are is forgetting where they came from and what they continue to be, with their "Girl of the Year" line.
They were meant to be _HISTORICAL._ They were about characters who went through hardships, and grew and became stronger, better people. A Swedish immigrant learning to adapt to her new life in America during the 1850s. A Colonial girl forced to choose between her Loyalist friend and Patriot family during the Revolutionary War. A Victorian-era New England orphan taken in by her high-society grandmother, learning and growing up in a world marked by classism, women's suffrage, and child labor, as she befriends one of the servants. A girl living during WWII, whose father winds up fighting in the war, while her family learns to make it through with her mother taking on a job as the primary breadwinner, and having to experience rationing and all the fears that go with living during a war. An escaped slave, who confronts themes of racism in her stories, but also familial love and freedom. The list goes on: a girl from the Great Depression, a Jewish girl growing up during WWI, a Hawaiian girl whose story picks up right before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
I owned original-release Molly McIntire and Felicity Merriman dolls (wow, I feel old saying that, seeing as the line started in 1986!), and I loved that they were both very different from me, and had these wonderful stories that came with them, full of lessons learned and families that loved each other no matter their struggles. American Girls are and have always been about being accepting, about learning to respect differences. If this skeevy liar of a false journalist can't handle his precious baby seeing diversity in a _doll,_ then I shudder to think what he might be teaching her about the world she lives in.
I'm a 57 year old cis woman and I wish I could have read those kind, self-affirming words when I was facing puberty! What a great book!
Seeing people your age, my parents age, look at things like this in a supportive light warms my heart❤ thank you so much and an early merry Christmas to you
You should stay away from children if you think telling kids to hide shit from their parents is OK.
@@herbue8772 she should be nowhere near kids.
Aww it’s cute we have some good old people on our side. Love does win in the end. Also I’m being nice btw
@@thewerewolfofnorway437 some parents are assholes 🤷♂
The problem is a lot of people don't understand that children don't belong to them you're raising another human being with their own thoughts and opinions not a clone
they still your child tho wtf are u even saying? They cant just do whatever they want until they are of legal age, no one told them they cant think or have opinions
@@AkuAku695 stopping your kids from consuming content about people different than them is not not letting them have their own opinions?
@@RandomUser36536 i love how yall try to dress this shit up like its wholesome or a learning experience. A trans kid doll is not a normal thing to introduce to a kid. Genital mutilation and hormone therapy isnt some shit you tell kids is normal for them to do. They don't know any better
@Shining Kimmy Puberty blockers make kids stupid. People get a huge boost of intelligence during puberty. Puberty blockers make kids mentally handicapped in comparison to their peers and it's permanent too because you crippled them when they were in school
@Shining Kimmy yeah I agree with you personally I feel like surgery that isn't for medical purposes should go up to 20 just so that if its plastic surgery or gender surgery they know they want to do it
Btw feel free to try to change my opinion I enjoy hearing other opinions and I might change my mind!
I'm AFAB and had the book about puberty and it was so helpful! from learning about sanitary products and using them correctly to different types of bras and how breasts formed it was crazy. Sure I got embarrassed sometimes reading it when I was in that stage but it wasnt that down your throat about any bias/ side of politics. The Body image book is something me growing up would've LOVED getting for sure
My mum got me the one about social interaction 😭
@@ponyonoodles6568 💀💀💀 i hope you enjoyed it at least
@@ponyonoodles6568 Ive met a fellow social anxiety noodle person i feel like there was a need to bring this to attention
Yeah, I had AG’s The Caring & Keeping of You book and it helped a lot. They came out with a second one I think when I was in high school/college. I don’t remember the body image book when I was young, but I would have loved that as someone who’s still dealing with body image issues
Having a book about puberty is very good for children. My mom bought me one called 'period' when I was seven or eight (she started menstruating when she was 9, and figured it was best to be sure I had the information early just in case) and the only reason I didn't buy it for my daughter is that my mom beat me to it.
American Girl puts a lot of research, respect and care in the cultures their dolls represent. ❤
Like what? The sinister gender cult?
Thats not going to sell dolls though, just to make a small percentage of weirdos happy
@@elguerokabron Being mindful of different cultures is weird to you? And I just looked it up, apart from this controversy, they seem to be doing well enough.
@@elguerokabron says the weirdo upset over inclusion
@@elguerokabron lol it made me buy them even more and the fact they mentioned lgbtq rights in one book made me buy 7 more books.
That dad could've used the moment of not finding a doll that looks like his daughter as a moment to teach empathy for the fact that so many girls have that experience almost every day but he chose to do what he did lol
He was definitely lying AG has a lot of white dolls. Kira, Julie, kit, Samantha, Rebecca, Courtney, Maryellen, let’s not forget all the truly me’s that are white as well. But just name a few, truly me 116, 115, 105, 101, 102, 104, 103, 107, and 100! But you’re comment is correct he should have took the opportunity to help her learn about different cultures, ethnicity’s, and inclusion.
@@TessesKingdom you can get dolls that look like you, it may not be under AG, I can't remember but still, you can customize dolls, I had a doll that looked like me, I'm white, white dolls exist, and customizable dolls exist
Im an AFAB nonbinary trans masc guy who grew up with American girl doll stuff. This video and book made me cry, because if I'd gotten that book as a kid, I wouldn't have gone through as much anguish and confusion over who I was. Some kids like me are gonna need the words from this book, and I'm so grateful they can get it if they need it.
@Shining Kimmy assigned female at birth
@@shinwaffle767 thanks i was wondering too!
Same, so much same, i nearly cried watching this too, im so happy this book exists so kids can learn about these things and not have to go through as much as we did
Have great day fellow trans masc enby!
Another fellow trans masc enby here - I agree. This would have saved me at least a decade of anguish and confusion. Even just being told plainly what puberty was going to do to my body where my parents/education system had failed. It would have made a world of difference.
Go out thе window
When I was like 8 and living under a rock I had two AG dolls and I unintentionally made one of them trans so that they could be in a straight relationship. I genuinely said to my sister "he cut his hair so he's a boy now" and looking back on that I think it's really funny
It's funny the way kids think sometimes. Two girls dating wasn't a possibility, but transitioning is fair game.
Reminds me that the trans/homophobes are wrong when they say how much it'll confuse kids. Kids are some of the most open minded people
I remember only having girl barbies so i made one a guy and also w of them were in a lesbian relationship 😭😭😭 i mean i was also regularly pretending to drown them in my sink, so i think i was just a weird kid in general
Looking back now I realize my favorite snivy plushie was kinda trans? At first I thought of them as a boy, but in pokepark 2 the snivy in that game was a girl (that the other pokemon initially mistook for a boy) and 8yo me was like :o omg cool now my snivy is a girl too!! lol
I was given a pinkish/purple teddy bear on my 4th birthday (We are now in our 30's). I've never once thought of him as a girl bear even though that's what everyone else saw, just like they saw a little girl when they looked at me. His name is Joey, my mother got him at a yard sale and he was a girl to the kid who had him before me.
Joey was a gay trans boy at a time before I'd even heard the word Transgender and was completely confused about why I felt such a strong connection to the LGBTQ+ community. I knew something about me was a little different but I just didn't have the words or understanding to express how I felt so Joey did it for me.
@@Goofyguy23709 LMAO you got me at the end, fair enough
14:35
Interesting how the same people who are angry over diversity in shows and are trying to deprive children of being able to grow up seeing characters, in shows, that are like them are also the same people who throw a hissy fit when their daughter can’t get an American Girl Doll that looks like her.
Representation for me, not for thee.
They're the most important, so their representation is the most important, and anyone else getting any is subtracting from theirs
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The whole big deal about representation is kind of insulting because this indirectly implies that the characters I saw growing up with were not "like me" just because they weren't the same ethnicity as me. I wasn't really "deprived" of anything, I was able to relate to characters because they were great characters and I was able to relate to them and their experiences. Never crossed my mind that "they don't have the same looking skin as me" until I got in school and I learned about race issues in history.
Characters being something other than white was always going to increase naturally as the population became more diverse, this weird prioritizing of representation just seems condescending to me.
@@zainm5919 my bad, I should have said “looks like”* /gen
I'm cis but this book is so wholesome and cute crying
As someone still exploring their gender identity I'm sobbing right now.
I'm demigirl and I'm SOBBBINGGG
im a trans dude and crying over this book
Weird-assess what do you think their teaching 8-13 year olds?
SAME
I read multiple of the American Girl nonfiction books about puberty and mental health and coming of age when i was in middle school, and I wish this was published a decade ago. Being told not everyone feels like a girl or a boy would have been... amazing.
I'm cis and that section about how to feel at home in your body even when you want to change parts about it actually made me tear up. I'm 22 and am still learning to take that advice. I'm 6'3" and have a highly fluctuating weight due to medical conditions (typically on the overweight side, fluctuating into the upper end of "normal") and I often struggle to feel happy with myself right now even though I'm working to change things about myself. I actually wrote down those tips as advice for myself later because I think it will help
When your child is afraid to talk to you about their gender identity and their are hiding it from you... I think you doing something wrong buddy
Right? I wish people would understand that
@@tanishabrown2520 Sexuality≠Sexual activities. Like... You can tell your parents about what gender you're attracted to WITHOUT telling them about your sexual life
My dad thought he was doing things right, but even being forced to hide my ADHD around him, was hard. I wish it was talked about more, that parents can be scary sometimes.
Well they're probably hiding it because they have been indoctrinated in stuff that they know thier parents won't approve of
@° your_local_nerd ° so? People go through phases just because you grow out of it doesn't mean you shouldn't explore your gender and sexuality
to the guy who was saying the couldn’t find a doll that looked like his daughter, does he know you can literally create your own completely custom doll? you can make your own doll with whatever features you want like it’s not that hard lmao
and as someone who’s nonbinary and who’s mom is an ag doll collector this makes me super happy to see, i definitely would’ve tried to point out the book to here if there was still a store in our area, but i’m glad nonetheless :] super slay of ag, hope they keep that up
That part was wild, he really said “there weren’t enough white dolls, it’s been woke-ified” like yikes dude, really saying the quiet part out loud there. Not to mention that white people have been catered to at the exclusion of nearly everyone else for centuries, so maybe his daughter will survive lol.
duuude ur mom sounds so cool (from someone who has 3 dolls and wants more), love that for u ❤💜 also yeah it's so dumb of him to purposefully ignote the CYO line
It sounded like he wanted to get one of the twin dolls (I think that’s what the custom lookalikes are called) but didn’t know how to and didn’t want to admit it lmao
I had a few American Girl dolls during my childhood and loved them. I’m so happy that they’re talking about the trans experience and helping kids out! We love inclusion 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️
Honestly I don't stan companies but it's really nice to see ONE company stay true to their original purpose and decide to be on the right side of history
Great commentary! I made a video a few months ago about AG’s LGBT representation including this book, and because of this recent controversy I’ve gotten a few transphobic comments, and as you said in the video, sex has different meanings! So many collectors have purchased the book to show their support for American girl and I just hope that they don’t stop talking about topics like this because of conservative right wing mom groups.
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Hey, Ally! Good to see you here! It would be great if commentary TH-camrs who were talking about this would collab with AGTubers
@@kaitlinannwright24 oh I wish but it comes with pros and cons
As a non binary person to have this book when I was going through puberty😢 I was soooo uncomfortable and confused and ashamed for not feeling comfortable in my body.
i would prefer a therapist rather than a book tbh
I am a creator on doll Instagram. It is mostly American girl. Most common reactions were either praise or people saying something along the lines of “I won’t be buying this book because I don’t understand it personally/ because of my religion/ because I don’t think it is important but I understand why people like it and support it.”
Honestly most people are lovely on there and how wholesome it is surprises me sometimes
Edit: as I’m watching the video I wanted to add that some of the collectors have over 150-200 American girl dolls
I’m a collector too and have 35 18” AGs currently. I had taken a break on IG and came back to the AG post with the backlash comments. I did try to defend the book and AG but also could only do so much and decided I needed to go back to my break (there was another non-AG reason for going back on break). I also have a doll YT channel (not this one).
@@wintersprite I don’t collect American girl bcz I’m in the uk but most other accounts on there do. I collect a girl for all time dolls. I might not be in deep enough to really see it but everyone now seems to be having healthy discussions rather than the usual social media messages of ‘you are an evil person bcz of ur opinion’
This book is going to save lives. I got my daughter and AG doll for the first time this year because she’s been asking for one for months (AG dolls were something I always wanted and could never afford growing up). I’m even more excited now. This book is going to be her birthday present.
Edit:trying to meet transphobia with kindness and connection, chime in with the same below.
You are literally right.
@@rhymerlegend2717 How so? Please elaborate.
@@arcadiaberger9204 By allowing people to be different and not live and learn the way I want.
--Rhymerlegend27
🤡🤡
@@cycymaca Exactly.
@@rhymerlegend2717 you’ve obviously never worked with children. I have. At-risk kids’ mentor for 19 years here, K-8 teacher for six. It’s going to save lives.
Seeing the reviews for the book is heartbreaking. If I had this when I was younger it would help me so much. When I was 8 and hit puberty, I hated myself and had terrible depression. I spent all my days inside, not talking to anyone, rarely even talking to my own family. I never got sex ed from school, I never was told anything. I struggled with bad thoughts for years and I didn’t know why and I couldn’t talk to anyone. I even read AG books when I was younger. Seeing so many people hate on a book that could save lives makes me so frustrated. Thank you for talking about this.
i always loved american girl as a kid. they made inclusion such a natural thing and i really think that it helped me become such a compassionate person. i’m so glad that they didn’t back down on trying to educate everyone of all ages on things that are around them and help them to be sympathetic to everyone around them. i had a subscription to the magazine for around 3 years when i was a kid and it was a lot of stuff like this, teaching kids to feel comfortable with who they are, telling stories from the experience of many different people and more. it helped me learn about experiences of people with disabilities, people of other cultures, and generally just made me understand that these are just normal things in life. i also loved the books, movies, and dolls which do a lot of the same things.
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A child somewhere out there is going to read those pages over and over again with stars in their eyes, feeling seen for the first time.
this is so cute. such a simple way to help younger kids understand the idea of gender identity. and honestly with the way it’s written i feel like it could be a great tool for parents who wanna have these conversations with their children. i’d totally buy this for my kid and i to read together.
that last page actually made me tear up
my relationship to my body is pretty complicated being enby, so hearing that it's okay to appreciate your body and still wanna change it really means alot to me ;-;
Imagine raising your child to be their own person and allowing them to have their own opinions 👀 American girl books are a staple in almost every afab person I know's life growing up, including mine. I wish I'd had these books as a kid but I'm glad they are out there now.
Honestly this seems so sweet and nice. If I had this book as a little kid I would've probably discovered I was trans a lot sooner. Imagine being mad about a book telling kids to explore. Isn't that what kids do?
Yeah…and kids are fundamentally stupid, that’s why their desire to explore is dangerous. Imagine getting upset about a book telling them to do the one thing that gets them in trouble the most.
@@sabersin5368-c2c exploring yourself is wildly different than exploring the dangerous world around you, there's no way to get hurt by exploring yourself lmao
@@Harudodo It's TH-cam trolls who are fundamentally stupid, not kids.
Don't feed the trolls.
@@arcadiaberger9204 I never understood why people get mad at trolls and then use the word as an insult. Don't you realize that you're getting out smarted?
@@Harudodo Exploring yourself is fucking worse, you want kids to explore their gender identity or sexual orientation for the sake of a minority group that are born with genetic malfunctions.
Even as a cis girl, I would have preferred to have had puberty later. Like around the time I was way more prepared to deal with it and have had more time to process it. I went through so much stress with it when it first started and it was so stressful. Like it was only a couple of months after we had the videos in school and those weren’t even enough information. So much they missed.
yeah I'm trans masc but my first puberty was way too early at 9 years old. It was so much to go through so fast; there wasn't really time to process how I felt about my gender because suddenly I was filled out and there was no way to think "what if I didn't have to be". This 'second puberty' has been amazing, especially being 33 and able to manage everything so much better.
@@hexonyou so damn true! Seriously, I’ve looked into puberty blockers and seen the panicks people have had about them too and omg lemme just say they would go into cardiac arrest if they found out what my adhd meds do to you. Like kids the age of 6 go on them. Side afects include accelerated heart rate, high blood pressure, higher risk of heart attack and for the people with cirtan disabilities and mental illness, psychosis and seizures. Those are actually pushed on kids by parents and it creates an unhealthy relationship with that kids medication to the point the resent it. Like it’s something you have to take no matter what and there’s no option to get on something else or change dosage. That’s how you get kids dumping them down the drain. Not to mention its often treated as a cure all for adhd and if a parent still sees signs of it they up the dose. It’s like hello why not look at an actual issue and listen to kids more instead of being transphobic?? Ugg I can go on. Stimulants are way worse and are what transphobes think puberty blockers are like. But those are safe if handed correctly. Luckily I do have a good relationship with my meds and I have direct control over them.
My school didn’t even say anything! They gathered us for a talk and explained the science behind hormones (as if a room full of 10 yr olds knows what that means) then said “females will see development in the chest and begin menstruation” AS IF THESE CHILDREN ARE GONNA KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. then they spent the rest of the lesson teaching us about being respectful and showing you’re paying attention when someone is speaking to you
Same. I started menstruating in 4th grade, before most, if not all, of the other girls in my class. It didn’t help my anxiety or self image at all (which I didn’t know until around five years ago that what I thought was just shyness was actually anxiety).
The words of that book are so comforting , to me, as a trans adult. If my parents had given it to me when I was younger, than I would assume they had at least skimmed it first, and feeling like they were giving me the green light to define my gender based on my inner voice and free of expectations. Instead, the explicit and implied expectations made my life much more difficult than it has/had to be.
It's awful that people want to control their kids by making them free to express themselves, and many do these days, that's my takeaway of this (predictable) reaction to this educational media.
But we've seen it time and again, how easy outrage is manufactured by the right- wing, how easily fascism takes over in an ignorant, ill-informed, economically depressed and frustrated populace. How easy people can be convinced to scapegoat a marginalized populace.
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The excerpts from this book were so comforting and reassuring. It is so frustrating to hear the news report, "That's not body empowerment or girl empowerment. That's self loathing." It's funny to hear that because it is these same people who will insult women because they aren't feminine enough and insult men because they are too feminine.
The strict roles society places on individuals to be causes self loathing not informing children that trans people exist. This book did an amazing job. I love the quote on that page called Gender Joy, "Luckily, it's not your job to look the way people expect - it's your job to be you."
They don't even realize they're freaking out over a book that's been out a whole year already.
American Girl has always been awesome. I didn't have this book as a kid but I had similar ones that were just as helpful. This company is BASED and clearly has the publics best interest at heart. Proud to consider that a big part of my childhood
I remember reading the "The Care & Keeping Of Me" books when I was like 10. I learned a lot of what I needed to know.
Its actual insanity to me that no matter what is ACTUALLY SAID they will stick to their same narrative, even if it literally says the exact opposite!!
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Elder Millennial Trans woman here. As someone who never had that cis childhood and a doll of her own, I might be indulging in a childhood desire of mine and buying one. Why? Because screw these culture warriors, that’s why.
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i went to an american girl doll store with my best friend a few weeks ago bc we wanted to revisit our childhoods and they had dolls with dyed hair, short hair, different skin tones, ethnic clothing, and wheelchairs and honestly it was so cute. it felt so welcoming. i had so much fun.
The American girl doll “puberty” book MORTIFIED me as a child and did a lot of emotional damage because it was to accept ‘learn how to and such being a woman’ … but seeing how they came out with this years and years later, honestly kind of heals that in some way.
Can you explain why that puberty book made you experience those feelings?
@@Illogical_Tales I'm a trans guy and I was also mortified when taking about female puberty. For me, it's because I didn't want to accept that I would go through that. I didn't want boobs, or periods, or any of that. When I started going through puberty myself I was absolutely devastated
I’m not saying American Girl is perfect, but the educational books that they make are pretty solid and it’s nice that they have dolls from so many different backgrounds. Their puberty book was really educational and supportive, and I remember being so excited to be able to get a doll that was jewish just like me!
I’m literally passing my AG bitty Twins on to my baby sisters. I have the brunette boy/girl set and the only difference between them was that the girl had a little extra hair on top for a tiny ponytail. I used to pretend they were both boys or both girls all the time. That was freedom of imagination. I love American Girls. My whole life they were the first inclusive brand I knew of. And they have boy dolls that they added a couple years ago. If I had had the money and opportunity to make a truly me boy doll when I was a kid I would have in a heartbeat.
Little 11-12 year old me would have loved that book. I always knew something was wrong with my body and mind, it never felt right to me. After a while at the age of 16 i found the term "transgender" and i've finally knew why i've felt like this.
It practically safed my life, i came out to my mom she accepts me and said that ill still be her child, even though i won't be her daughter anymore she will accept me as her son. It made me very happy.
I'm 21 now still feeling like this, i already planned how i want to start my journey. Currently im looking into the dgti-supplemental ID card which is 19,90€ currently it's a headstart for me to start coming out to others without going into detail. Then i'll slowly build up my journey to legally changing my name and my gender on all legal documents. After that i'll look into therapy to get T-shots.
Transphobes are ruining these chances for children who are trans, it's deadly and harmful. Children aren't dumb, i've met plently who are smart and more open to topics adults usually are part of (politics etc.) children deserve the right to their own identity, transphobes need to mind their business.
It not only helps trans kids discover themselves, but also helps cis kids understand their trans peers and have their backs. Education is the cure to discrimination
Honestly, I consider it borderline abusive to withhold education from your children, trans or cis, especially in topics like health.
Being offended by human bodies existing shouldn't give you the right to force someone else to be ignorant of how their body and the world around them works.
I used to hate American Girl Doll because I was a rebellious little girl, ohhh I didnxxt like pink! Me now, being a genderqueer person, and pink is so pretty. But now that I see this. I WISH I had American Girl Doll when I was younger. I wish I had these books. This is so amazing and so good for kids to have. Also, GIRL. LITERALLY SLAY your makeup is soooo good
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The thing I never understand about this is, no one is forcing your child to read these books or go to Drag Queen story time. If you don’t want them to be exposed to that then don’t expose them to it. Although I think it’s incredibly sad that you’re “protecting” your child from learning about themselves and the world around them.
i grew up with american girl dolls, reading that care and keeping of you book or whatever it was that had a bunch of afab puberty stuff in it. and honestly, that was for more """"sexualized"""" than what anything in the section about trans stuff included. im genderqueer today and really love the idea of this book. one of the first exposures i had to trans people was a random passerby getting called the t-slur by my mom and me not knowing what that meant. the whole "woke groomer mob" bullshit is setting us so far back, and it is scary. having this book as a very well-worded and well-informed option for trans kids, and even cis kids, is just great as a teaching tool. i'm glad ag didn't back down on this.
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They don't actually care about "sexualizing". They're just trying to call queer people gross but they're manipulative enough to avoid saying what they mean.
"the spooky leftists... i'm under your bed girl" samantha, stop. i just snorted my coffee lmao
so the crowd who thinks "cancelling" is wrong and horrible, is .... cancelling a company? lmao...anway,
i had to pause halfway through to go check the book out on AG's site and unfortunately there really is a bunch of backlash in the reviews. i wrote them an email on the "contact us" page to let them know that it is a fantastic book. i think the more we let them know that its a good thing, the more likely it is to stay up (even tho apparently they arent thinking of taking it down anyway). we need to show them how important this book is for us even as adults. flood them with positivity !!!
thank you samantha for making this vid, i wouldnt have known about this book otherwise!
There are some people who are serious collectors of American Girl stuff, and a few of them just actually died when you confused them with Cabbage Patch Dolls. They just went very still, a drop of blood leaked out of their noses, and a few seconds later, they fell over dead.
Been watching your videos for a while and I wanted to say that you are a wonderful advocate. I know times are tough for our community but with advocates like you fighting for our rights I do believe there will be a brighter future for all of us. Continue to be amazing! (Also I totally see you working at the United Nations on behalf of trans advocacy sometime in the future :) )
honestly im super impressed by American girls' inclusivity and how well they handled the topic. i would have loved to have this when i was a younger, since i only really learned about nonbinary identities within the last two or three years. my parents are super supportive, but it just never really occured to them to teach me, so i had to learn through people like OneTopic when i was already entering my mid-teens
saaaame my first exposure to LGBTQ+ identities was around 13 & i was so embarrassed that i didn’t know before & mad that nobody told me
I love your videos. That is all.
Okay, one more thing: I wish I had these books when I was growing up a sad, bullied, abused cis girl. Just the idea of making your body a home where you feel good is making me want to cry. It's probably part of why I feel the need to stand up for LGBTQIA people. Plus, it turns out I'm a Romantic Ace, but I didn't find that out until later. And the first person I told (a bisexual woman) had a meltdown and basically told me there was no such thing as an asexual, she was abused and she came out just fine (I never said I was sexually abused), and I just hadn't found the right person yet. I was 49. And then I truly, finally knew what it was like to have my entire existence discounted and erased. That was an important experience for me. I finally had some hint of what LGBTQ+ people deal with on the daily.
Samantha really said “I think I know more about American Girl Dolls then you do genius.”
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“Gender dysphoria” is the proper medical term to use when describing someone in a situation like that. “Transgender” on the other hand, is the term used when someone has physically transitioned. Aside from that, The content of that American Girl book is GREAT!!!
10:54 can we just appreciate the quote in the corner? I think it sums it all up perfectly. “being transgender isn’t a medical transition. it’s a process of learning to love yourself for who you are."
It's such bullshit that people think hiding things from your parents is always a bad thing. There are legitimately children who have been beaten, killed, kicked out, and etcetera because of their identity. Like it or not, sometimes keeping things from the people who have so much control over your life is keeping you safe.
That book is the sweetest thing at 11/12 years old I first learned about jazz and her whole story it helped me learn more about the world outside my tiny home town and over the years I’ve been able to make some great friends because I kept an open mind to what other people are going through a lot of the girls getting these dolls are upper middle class white girls honestly a force to be reckoned with im glad they’re getting the opportunity to learn outside what they’re growing up around and being shielded from
Back in the day it was controversial to give your kid a book about menstruation..parents judged other parents who gave books instead of actually talking to their kids.
If that news guy couldn’t find a doll that looked like his white child, he wasn’t looking hard enough. Blonde white dolls are the most common. Plus, you can literally have a custom doll made to look like you.
The upset parents are the transphobic ones that their children are afraid to talk to.
I was really into American girl dolls as a kid and I wish I had these books they seem really good for young girls and the transgender stuff in this one would’ve helped my understanding a lot
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I bought this book as soon as I found out about it. I am an avid AG adult collector and since my channel's audience is American Girl collectors, I made a video about the book too. The book is so, so well done. It's actually transinclusive on so many more pages than just those three and it covers so many other important topics so well. As a ciswoman, I wanted to make sure I included perspectives from trans folks in any video I did, so I reached out to a friend whose friend began transitioning in pre-school. I hope I did the topic justice and I love that you're covering it since you have a much larger platform. Thanks for such a great video!
I love being nonbinary. Trans people, we’re valid. Love being trans 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Me too! Genderqueer senior citizen here. Hugs to all trans & nb fam!
@@rhymerlegend2717 Well…yes it does lmfao
@@rhymerlegend2717 Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indic, Greece, Thailand, Maya, Inca, indigenous north american, and Inuit peoples did/still do have people who exist as either both genders, or neither genders. Both archaeologists and anthropologists acknowledge that so many cultures throughout history had people that did not fall into the gender binary (and non of this is to be confused with intersex by the way, it was solely gender). One of the oldest recorded story's in history literally had a mortal who identified as neither man nor woman save Ishtar when no one else could. I got two further facts for you, 1) the singular They has existed in the english language almost 200 years before the singular You, 2) languages are constantly evolving, the english dictionary today is way different than even the english dictionary 50 years ago, let alone 700 years ago when modern english began. So the take away is that non-binary people are who they are, and have existed for as long as humanity.
I love you so much for this! I’m a transgender man and I’ve seen so many transphobia about this topic. It made me so upset and I found this video and it made me cry a bit. I was so frustrated that people were talking down on us.
Sexuality was not mentioned once.
This resource is beautiful for everyone, including trans kids. It just encourages kids to contextualise and express their feelings safely. That is it. Everything it says applies to cis kids too! I really cannot fathom how resource signposting is 'promoting' anything other than verbalising complex and overwhelming feelings that kids may have.
I appreciate that they did this because the care and keeping of you that i got as a child was not gender inclusive and it annoyed me
Yes it wasn’t
I've been looking back on a lot of moments in my childhood that really add up, now knowing that I'm trans. I remember picking out an American Girl Doll when I was younger and being so averse to and weirded out by the idea of buying a doll that looked anything like myself haha (I got Kaya instead, the Native American doll, because she had sick outfits and I really liked learning about Native American history at the time). I would have so loved a book like this; it took me such a long time to not only be introduced to the idea of trans / non-binary identities, but even longer to get good, accurate, helpful information about them.
We can't emphasize enough that they said that being cis was ok, "They're encouraging girls to change their sex" where? Are we talking about the same book?
lol ofc they mad
I was having a rough day with how I looked today and hearing Samatha read parts of this book made me feel so much better
If anyone is worried about their kids not going to them when issues arise, they should probably look inward rather than lashing out at the world around them.
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Your makeup and overall look is very on point in this video!
As someone who’d like to be a dad one day, you bet your ass I’m buying all these books if I ever have a daughter
I had the Felicity story books and activity book collection, but never had the doll or any other American Girl doll. Now my 36 year old agender self wants her more than ever!
Loads of people sell the dolls second hand online, and if they're a bit damaged they're usually easy to fix at home! There's loads of dolls (even Felicity) online for less than 60 dollars if ur ever able to get one ❤
You should go for it! I am an adult collector and it has brought me so much joy. I got my Felicity for $40 on eBay.
The funniest thing about the guy not being able to find find a doll for his white daughter is that AG literally offers "create your own" dolls that you can customize the features of to look like you LOL. Like I get he just went to the store but when you're on TV you should probably idk DO YOUR RESEARCH LOL
That guy talking about how unreal it was to not see something that represents you... It's as if... That's what minorities have been experiencing all the time. The fact he's surprised reveals his privilege.
@Buck Yomama still him?? stay mad clown
I am not a doll lover, but dolls with socially responsible books like these I could totally get behind
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I’m so sad my mother didn’t get me this series from American girl. I got the “Care and Keeping of You” one which just made me depressed every time I read them.
This series would have made things so much easier for a young trans guy like me :).
I had an American girl doll growing up (mine was actually named Samantha, lol) And they've always had books. That's a huge part of what I liked about them, was that each doll came with books about her. I was never as interested in the modern-day fiction books, but I did have some of the Smart Girl's Guides. I'm glad they're being more inclusive.
The whole comparing hrt to hard drugs reminds me of when I was a neurodivergent kid in the 2000-2010's who took Ritalin and my classmates would always repeat their parent's asinine beliefs that ADHD doesn't exist and that meds for it are addictive and compared it to meth which was hilarious to me because if I were addicted to my meds I don't think I would forget to take them for days and even weeks on end. Even as an adult I forget to take them all the damn time, heck I'm more addicted to coffee then I am ADHD medication.
Maybe consider looking into a monthly pill organizer/caddy. It's really helped me. I do screw up from time to time, but far less frequently.
Now if only I could keep myself on track for filling my organizers each month, lol.
It's funnier to me that they call hrt "hard drugs" when all it is is taking a human body and giving it human hormones that we all have some of and changing the balance to be more like the opposite sex (which we're all more similar to than we think).
Her reaction at 6:07 is why representation is so important.
1) People often forget how controversial sex ed books are in general, there's usually a couple every year on the ALA's top 100 most banned and challenged books list. I'd consider "Our Bodies Ourselves" to be one of the first modern sex-ed books, even though it's for all ages, and that only first came out in 1970. Lots of people still seem to think that providing women, girls, and AFAB people more generally with detailed, accurate, and comprehensive information about their bodies is "too sexual". (
2) I'm pretty sure one of the puberty books I had as a kid was by American Girl, and this was about 20 years ago. Yeah, it was a little awkward, especially reading it with my mom. But it was much better than anything I learned in school.
3) I teared up when you read that last part. They really did their DBT research, pointing out that you can appreciate your body but also want it to be different at the same time, and suggesting concrete actions that kids can do to feel better when they're distressed. They've done such a great job breaking down these concepts so that even little kids can understand and be comforted. Even though I'm cis, reading that just felt like a big hug to my younger self.
I love how AG had these little sections about gender identity AND they stood their ground about it. I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was an adult, but reading about gender identity would've been interesting to learn about as a kid.
Growing up my grandma was obsessed with buying me and my four sisters these dolls. I had three of them, one that looked like me, another that looked like other girls my age ( both white) but my favorite one was Josefina who is a Mexican American Girl. So I don’t understand his problem with not finding one that looks like his daughter. I loved Josefina and she couldn’t look less like me.
Crazy how many of these adults lack the reading comprehension to understand the point of a book for tweens 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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A bit off topic, but when my friend came out as a trans women I was so confused. My thoughts were literally ‘why would she want to be a girl? Why wouldn’t she want to be a boy, especially since she was amab.’ Turns out you don’t chose to be trans and turns out I’m a trans man. It all makes sense now
"We couldn't find a doll that looked like her" proceeds to show an image with 5/6 white dolls literally seconds later
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one thing i saw a while back that rlly stuck with me was "your kids didn't suddenly 'turn trans' once they moved out from your house, they're just safe from you and how you would react for the first time" just think about that
I love this video! Way to go American Girl for being so inclusive. From now on this is EXACTLY how I am explaining people who are trans to transphobes. Like they are 3 years old. Thank you Samantha ❤️
The words on that book are so touching, being trans is a beautiful thing that kids need to be taught and guided on how to understand
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This book looks so great! My ex was really into American girl doll, and I’m sure my daughter will love it too! I can’t wait to show her this book to explain why her bonus mom is a mom too🎉😊
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I really can't rave about the AG Care and Keeping of you books enough. The original book had a LOT of useful information, from typical timelines, what to expect, how to keep yourself clean, bras and sizing, even menstrual products and how to use them. I had the book before I got puberty (like a year or two) and when it all started, it really helped me be less scared about my body and what it was doing, and it helped me communicate with my parents about what I needed to help.
On a more serious note, the original care and keeping book introduced the idea of the bikini zone to me. It wasn't a big thing, just a note that was like "yo this is what it is, and that's your body and if someone is touching you there or is wanting to touch you there, you have every right to say no and tell someone." However, this little snippet helped me to notice someone was trying to hurt me and to get away before it got too far. Truly a lifesaver
I had American Girl dolls and the books growing up, mostly due to the fact that my mom loved them and got me into them too (we're both history nerds and this was when the dolls focused on points in American history). I'm an adult now, and grew out of them, but my mom still loves them. I'm looking forward to telling her about this because she'll probably use it as an excuse to buy one.
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I was obsessed with American Girl as a kid. I read every historical girl book the library had and burned through them. I even still own a few box sets. (Felicity was my fav)
I have a very conservative Christian family and have spent the last few years learning and connecting with the queer community. Being able to look back on something I loved so much as a 22yr old now, and see that it’s still so loving and helpful towards the little girls who enjoy it is so heartwarming for me.
I'm happy to know that children have access to doctors and other resources that will help them ❤
Idk if they still have it, but when I was a tween AG had a book, I think it was called Your Body and You, that was probably the most helpful information I ever received about puberty. The dolls are fucking expensive but their publications are great.
Please, if you are able to: buy those books, collect or donate them, just support good books serving to create the public we allwant to live in
Society* was the word i just forgot, sry im not a native but we do have simmilar issues over here
@@suekuarell4685 donate them to your fireplace with other cult literature
@@7thavedrycleaners178 Today on "Bigots don't understand what words mean" we have the word cult. Later we'll cover woke, groomer, sex and sexuality. More at 11
@@7thavedrycleaners178 Burning books about transgender topics? Now where have I heard about that before...? 🤔
Something to do with Magnus Hirschfeld and the German Student Union on May 6th, 1933?
@@7thavedrycleaners178 no, don’t do that
"I'm under your bed, girl" 😂 😂 😂 I'm straight up cackling, that was great.
Age 3-10 year old me: * feels dysphoria but not that much *
Puberty: *I'm 'boutta end this man's whole career.*
@Yung Mohel not necessarily, most kids don’t feel dysphoria about their gender, most cis kids don’t.
@Yung Mohel already proven false but go off
@@yungmohel1906 bro that's the opposite of what I meant 💀 also where'd you get that statistic from? I'd love to see sources
@Yung Mohel Actually recent studies suggest that only 2.5% of kids that experience gender dysphoria will grow out of it.
Thanks for underlining text in long passages as you're reading it out. I really hate having to hunt for the spot to start reading along