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A J Crew childrenswear ad featuring a young boy with his toenails painted pink has sparked debate across the U.S. about gender identity in children.
The image, which featured in an email mailer to customers last week, stars Jenna Lyons, the chain's president and creative director, and her son Beckett, five.
The mother-of-one is seen with a bottle of neon pink nail polish, painting her son's toenails.
A J Crew childrenswear ad featuring a young boy with his toenails painted pink has sparked debate across the U.S. about gender identity in children.
The image, which featured in an email mailer to customers last week, stars Jenna Lyons, the chain's president and creative director, and her son Beckett, five.
The mother-of-one is seen with a bottle of neon pink nail polish, painting her son's toenails.
But a number of psychiatrists have slammed the ad, claiming that promotion of such an image 'celebrates transgendered identity'.
Psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow told Fox News: 'This is a dramatic example of the way that our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity.
Media commentator Erin Brown of the Media Research Center also had strong views, calling it 'blatant propaganda celebrating transgendered children.
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