Resurfaced Clips Detail Siebel Newsom's Gender-Equity Parenting

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has drawn widespread online attention after clips from past interviews resurfaced this week, in which she described altering gender pronouns in children's books and providing dolls to her sons as part of her parenting approach.

In the footage, which has garnered millions of views on social media platforms, Siebel Newsom explained her methods for promoting gender equality. "What I have done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the he to a she," she said. "And it just normalizes for my sons, in particular ... I do it for my sons because I want them to see that women can be the center of a story, that women matter, that women are interesting." She added that she has given her sons dolls, even acknowledging that they might damage them, to demonstrate that caregiving is a responsibility for men as well as women. "I've given our boys dolls ... to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women, but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men," she stated.

Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker and advocate for...