The trend of “transgender” in the Western world has intensified, and now even Barbie dolls are not immune. According to a report by NBC News on the 26th, Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, recently launched the world‘s first transgender Barbie doll. It is based on the famous American transgender actor Laverne Cox.
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Laverne Cox is a multiple Emmy Award winner and a well-known LGBTQ+ activist. She first rose to fame on the hit TV show Orange Is the New Black, and in 2014 became the first actress ever to be nominated for an Emmy as an openly transgender person. In June of the same year, she became the first openly transgender person to be featured in Time magazine.
Also in 2014, Cox was featured on the “World Pride Power List” by The Guardian, which honors the world‘s most influential LGBT people. She also received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for her advocacy for transgender people.
According to the report, in order to celebrate Cox’s 50th birthday on the 29th, and to recognize her contribution to society, Mattel has cooperated deeply with her and launched this “Tribute Series” Barbie doll based on her.
Today, this doll has been launched on Amazon, Walmart and other malls on the 25th, priced at 39 US dollars (about 263 yuan).
Laverne Cox and the doll. The doll was dressed in a red ball gown and silver bodysuit with accessories like high heels and silver earrings.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on the 26th, Mattel last year launched a “Tribute Series” of Barbie dolls, which is to pay tribute to those “women who have made an outstanding impact on society or left a valuable legacy to society”.
The Laverne Cox Tribute Barbie is the latest of these. On April 21 this year, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 96th birthday, and this year was also her 70th anniversary. Mattel designed a “Queen Barbie” for Queen Elizabeth II, which was released on the Queen’s birthday. .
The doll is based on a portrait of the Queen 10 years ago on her 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
“It’s been a dream of mine to work with Barbie and create my own dolls for years, and I can’t wait for fans to find my dolls on the shelves, let them know,” Cox said in a statement, NBC reported. The opportunity to add a trans person-based Barbie to their collection.”
“I want people to be able to look at this Barbie and have big dreams, like I’ve done in my career. Dreams are such a powerful source that they lead you to achieve more than you first thought possible .”
In the statement, Cox also recounted some of her childhood experiences, saying that she wanted to play with Barbie dolls as a child, but was humiliated by her mother, which brought her a lot of shame and trauma. As an adult, she reconciled with her mother and began receiving Barbie dolls as Christmas gifts. Her new relationship with Barbie has given her a “truly healing experience”.
Although Laverne Cox is so sincere, many netizens have questioned this transgender Barbie doll.
Under the reports and tweets released by NBC and BBC, some netizens worried that transgender Barbie “will make children confused about their gender”, thinking that this is “completely wrong”.
Some netizens said that “the children never said they wanted this doll”, implying that adults added various concepts to the doll.
However, some netizens said that this transgender doll is not an innovative move, after all, all the dolls he has seen have no “genitals”.
