Yahoo News 'World's first transgender doll' to go on sale this summer
An item billed as the "world's first transgender doll" has been debuted at the New York Toy Fair, which drew to a close earlier this week.
The doll is based on 16-year-old transgender activist and YouTube personality Jazz Jennings who, born a boy, transitioned to living as a girl at age five.
The doll, which is 18in high, will be priced at £71 when it goes on sale this July. It was created by the Tonner Doll Company, who modeled it on Ms Jennings, and comes dressed in a pink shirt and jeans shorts, similar to those worn by Jennings on the cover of her memoir, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen.
Posting an image of the doll on her Instagram account, Jenner said: "I hope that it can place transgender people in a positive light by showing that we are just like all other people.
"For those asking: the doll is considered to be the first 'transgender' doll because it's based on an individual who is trans.
"Of course it is still just a regular girl doll because that's exactly what I am: a regular girl!"
Robert Tonner of the Tonner Doll Company said: "Jazz stands for everything I respect from a human nature point of view-she's incredibly brave, intelligent, warm-hearted and creative.
"With the Jazz Jennings doll, Tonner continues its history of ground-breaking doll line introductions based on socially transformational heroes."
