Preschool Becomes Gender School - MyGender Dolls To Indoctrinate Next Generation

Imagine walking into your four-year-old's classroom and discovering adults encouraging children to remove and replace paper genitals to help them imagine becoming someone else.

It sounds less like elementary education than the plot of a dystopian novel.

Yet this fall, educational materials developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School may begin appearing in the hands of teachers, counselors and clinicians working with children as young as four years old.

If this doesn't cause parents to stop and ask what has happened to American education, what will?

The "MyGender Dolls" feature interchangeable clothing, hairstyles, internal organs and external genitalia. According to their creators, the purpose is to help children "learn about the different options that exist for who they can be."

Think about that for a moment.

Four-year-olds are not struggling with questions about sex reassignment. They are learning the alphabet, tying their shoes and discovering how to get along with classmates. Yet adults now believe one of the best uses of classroom time is encouraging preschoolers to imagine changing the most fundamental aspects of their own bodies.

How did we get here?

The dolls themselves are not the real story.

They are simply the latest step in a cultural progression that has advanced at breathtaking speed.

First came Drag Queen Story Hour.

Then pride flags in elementary classrooms.

Then gender identity lessons for young children.

Then schools socially transitioning children without parental knowledge.

Then puberty blockers.

Then cross-sex hormones.

Then irreversible surgeries for teenagers.

Now we arrive at paper dolls with interchangeable genitalia for preschoolers.

Every one of these developments was once dismissed as an impossible conspiracy theory.

Every one eventually became reality.

Each new step made the next one seem just a little more normal.

Associate Professor Dianne Berg, one of the project's founders, summarized the philosophy behind the dolls:

"Everyone should be learning that there's diversity in gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel."

That statement is not simply about kindness or inclusion.

It is a complete redefinition of human identity.

For thousands of years, nearly every civilization understood that our bodies reveal something objectively true about who we are.

This new philosophy teaches children the exact opposite--that feelings determine reality, while biology becomes secondary.

Whether adults agree or disagree with that worldview, one question should unite parents across political lines:

Children this young still pretend to be dinosaurs, superheroes and talking animals. They often struggle to distinguish imagination from reality. Yet adults now propose introducing removable genitalia into classroom materials so children can imagine redesigning their own bodies.

That is not developmental education.

It is ideological formation.

Supporters insist the dolls simply promote compassion.

If that is true, why are removable genitals necessary?

Schools have taught kindness toward children of different races, disabilities and backgrounds for generations without asking kindergarteners to experiment with anatomically detailed paper dolls.

If gender identity naturally develops on its own...

Why introduce specially designed teaching tools to guide children toward questioning it?

If this is simply about acceptance...

Why begin before children have even mastered multiplication?

These are not unreasonable questions.

Parents deserve honest answers.

This controversy did not emerge in a vacuum.

Governor Tim Walz has spent years positioning Minnesota among the nation's most aggressive states on transgender policy. His administration has championed legislation expanding legal protections related to gender identity and publicly celebrated transgender activism. In 2023, Walz received the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health's first "Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award."

Remember this man almost became Vice President for the country...

The MyGender Dolls are not an isolated classroom project.

They reflect a broader political and academic movement that increasingly sees childhood as the starting point for reshaping society's understanding of sex and identity.

History shows that lasting cultural revolutions rarely begin in legislatures.

They begin in classrooms.

The University of Minnesota Medical School receives millions of dollars in state funding each year. University officials maintain that taxpayer dollars did not directly fund the commercial version of the dolls, while declining to specify how much publicly funded research contributed to their development.

Parents should not have to guess.

They deserve transparency.

They deserve meaningful opt-out rights.

Most importantly, they deserve the final say over when--and whether--their young children are introduced to concepts involving gender identity and future body modification.

That responsibility belongs to families, not government institutions or university researchers.

Some will dismiss concerns over these dolls as an overreaction.

History suggests otherwise.

Major cultural changes rarely arrive all at once.

They come one curriculum at a time.

One policy at a time.

One lesson at a time.

One classroom at a time.

Today's paper dolls become tomorrow's standard lesson plan.

Tomorrow's lesson plan becomes the next generation's unquestioned reality.

That is how the boundaries of acceptable thought slowly move.

Scripture teaches that children are a gift entrusted to parents--not blank canvases for every new social theory.

Jesus welcomed children, protected them and issued one of Scripture's strongest warnings against leading them astray.

That warning should weigh heavily on every educator, policymaker and institution shaping young minds.

Children need truth before ideology.

Stability before confusion.

Guidance before experimentation.

The real issue is not whether a set of paper dolls will transform society.

The issue is what those dolls represent.

For the first time in American history, respected academic institutions are deliberately introducing preschool children to the idea that even their biological sex is something to be explored, questioned and potentially reimagined.

Civilizations are rarely transformed by a single election or a single law.

They are transformed one generation at a time.

The question is no longer whether America's children are being taught a radically different understanding of human identity.

The question is whether enough parents will recognize what is happening before these lessons become impossible to avoid.