Days after one toy maker announced its doll modeled after a transgender teen, another toy maker announced a new doll, enraging one pastor. “The devil wants to kill, steal and destroy the minds of our children and grandchildren by perverting, distorting and twisting [the] truth of who God created them to be,” The Rev. Keith Ogden of Hill Street Baptist Church in North Carolina said of the American Girl’s new doll, a boy named Logan.

Until now, all the American Girl dolls have been just that—girls. Logan Everett comes from Tenney Grant’s story. Grant is a Nashville-based musician who wants to make it in the music business. According to the American Girl site, the first boy doll doesn’t differ that much from the girls: 18″ tall, with eyes that open and close. He arrives in a plaid button-down shirt, a T-shirt, jeans, underwear and shoes. READ MORE


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