Minnesota’s radical gender experiment is now targeting the playroom.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported earlier this month that a controversial program developed at the University of Minnesota Medical School is preparing to make so-called “MyGender Dolls” available to educators, school counselors, clinicians, pediatricians, and mental-health providers working with children between the ages of four and ten.
The dolls, which mimic classic paper dolls but allow children to swap out genitals, reproductive organs, clothing, hairstyles, and accessories, are being marketed as a “therapeutic” tool “grounded in gender-affirming clinical practices.”
The paper dolls reportedly have gender-neutral names, including Sam, Rory, Avery, and Parker, according to the New York Post.
According to the project’s website, they are intended to help children ages 4–10 “visualize their anatomy and genders” and “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be.”
Prototypes have already been tested on young children. University researchers previously paid “transgender and gender diverse” kids ages 5–10 and their parents $20 to $60 to participate in sessions using the dolls.
The project originated at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (formerly the Program in Human Sexuality).
It is now being commercialized as MyGender Dolls and made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatricians, and mental health providers.
According to the university’s 2024 annual report:
MYGENDER DOLLS: A TOOL FOR THERAPISTS
Several of our research and scholarship projects meld art and science. We have made substantial progress on the MyGender Dolls project, a set of therapeutic tools intended for licensed therapists to use with patients and their parents or caregivers, to help children who find it difficult to express themselves.
Research and development is ongoing, and has been made possible by generous grant and donation support. We used community-engaged approaches to revise both the dolls and the therapeutic tools that are used in conjunction with them. We are working with offices at the University in order to bring this innovation to clinical spaces!
The university’s medical school allegedly receives $15 million annually in state funding under Gov. Tim Walz’s administration, money earmarked to boost research capacity.
Walz himself received the institute’s inaugural “Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award” in 2023 and has been photographed smiling alongside one of the project’s co-founders.
The New York Post reported:
The University of Minnesota’s Medical School has been receiving $15 million annual funding from the state via Walz — cash earmarked to “increase the medical school’s research capacity” and “ensure its national prominence.”
But the school doesn’t report how much it funnels to its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, which has a total research budget of $1.4 million, according to its 2025 annual report.
Walz, who’s pushed pro-transgender policies on the Midwestern state, was bestowed the institute’s inaugural “Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award” in 2023, a title created just for him.
The scandal-plagued governor was even pictured with a wide grin alongside Medical School Associate Professor Nic Rider — co-founder of MyGender Dolls, which is bringing the radical dolls to market.
Rider, a psychologist who specializes in children and teen transgender health, goes by they/them pronouns, according to a bio on the medical school’s website.
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