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Friday, July 31. 2026
Trump admin probes Minnesota over ‘transgender dolls’ in schools, but state disputes story
Moms for America’s Kimberly Fletcher discusses the controversial introduction of tax-funded transgender dolls with removable private parts in Minnesota public schools for children as young as four. The state disputes that the program is taxpayer-funded.
The Trump administration is threatening to strip federal funding from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) as part of a federal investigation into reports that “transgender dolls” are being introduced in classrooms, although the state claims it has no involvement and no such program is happening.
A Department of Education (ED) official told Fox News Digital that the probe was opened by the agency’s Student Privacy Policy Office following a privacy complaint filed by the advocacy group Defending Education. The complaint alleged that Minnesota parents were not notified — nor given the opportunity to opt their children out — of classroom activities involving “MyGender Dolls.”
If the federal probe finds that state officials violated the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) or infringed upon parental rights, the state risks losing key federal education dollars.
The Minnesota Department of Education said, however, it “has no involvement” with the program and pointed to the University of Minnesota housing a study on the dolls.
“This is a University of Minnesota study/program. The Minnesota Department of Education has no involvement with this,” a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
It doesn’t matter who’s involved in what level. The problem is that some faculty of the University of Minnesota decided they need to introduce this program to children. As small as 4 years old! At any level of education these dolls should not exist and the Department of Education should be paying better attention to what is going on. In my opinion, they probably knew and figured nobody would find out about it, but they were wrong, and now they want to wash their hands of it. Another article said about these dolls being a learning tool. Why would they have to teach these kids this filth? They admit these children don’t know anything about this transgender deviancy, if they did, they wouldn’t have to teach them!