The dolls have already garnered national attention. They were presented at the 2019 symposium of the U.S. division of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), whose controversial standards of care for trans-identifying people have come under fire in recent years.
Elsewhere on its website, the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health touts that it has faculty serving on the WPATH Standards of Care document revision committee.
One of the Center’s co-directors is Dr. Dianne Berg, who serves on WPATH’s child and adolescent committee and is interested in both “gender creative children” and “compulsive sexual behavior,” according to her biography on the University of Minnesota’s website.
Her co-director is Dr. Katie Spencer, who is “passionate about social justice and feminist approaches” to clinical practice, her biography says.
The Center says part of its mission is to “eliminate gender-based stigma and discrimination.” It also says it wants to promote scholarship by trans-identifying people, “challenge cisnormativity in healthcare,” and “promote pleasure and positive sexuality for all bodies.” It also touted recently getting $87,500 more in grant funding.
