Gavin Newsom’s spouse says she gave her sons dolls to play with in resurfaced clip

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, spouse of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is drawing consideration on-line for resurfaced remarks about giving her boys dolls to play with and even altering male characters in books to females.

“I’ve given our boys dolls, even when they tear the pinnacle off,” Newsom mentioned in an undated interview that resurfaced on X. “I’ve given them dolls to study that care and caregiving isn’t just an exercise that’s reserved for girls, however that it’s additionally an exercise that may be a duty of males.” 

She additionally mentioned she modifies male characters to feminine when studying books to her sons.

“What I’ve accomplished with each my daughters and my sons is that if I’m studying a e-book and the protagonist is a male, I simply change the he to a she,” Newsom mentioned. “And it simply normalizes for my sons, particularly, it’s not even … I don’t even simply do it for my ladies. I do it for my sons as a result of I would like them to see that ladies will be the middle of a narrative, that ladies matter, that ladies are fascinating.”  

Newsom additionally talked about deconstructing gender roles. 

“On the finish of the day, we’re all form of like on this place in historical past perhaps the place we’re recognizing what it’s to in the end deconstruct all these gender roles and in the end be human, and that’s thrilling to me,” Newsom mentioned. 

“So, , I’ll simply proceed to form of do my work and try to deconstruct all these limiting narratives about in the end what it means to be human.”

In a 2016 interview revealed by Salon.com, Newsom made comparable remarks about giving her boys dolls to play with. 

“What do we have to do to fight that straitjacket of gender stereotypes that we put our youngsters into?” Newsom requested. “We have to encourage our boys to play with dolls and stuffed animals and nurture them and study that caregiving and nurturing and love and empathy should not simply female pursuits. 

“We have to encourage ladies to not solely play with dolls and costume up, however to construct issues and play with Legos and vehicles and be bodily and go on the market and kick a ball.”

Newsom additionally not too long ago drew consideration from a resurfaced 2022 interview through which she instructed journalist Elex Michaelson when he was working at a neighborhood Los Angeles station that evangelicals are “pulling us again as a rustic.” 

Fox Information Digital reached out to Siebel Newsom’s workplace for remark. 

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