The newest American Girl Doll is inciting boycotts because of an LGBTQ+ storyline, but not because she's gay, or because her parents are gay.
No, people are made because she went to visit her two gay aunts. American Girl's 2021 Girl of the Year is Kira Bailey. In her accompanying book explaining her back story, Kira Down Under, the 10-year-old goes to Australia to visits her two aunts' wildlife sanctuary.
According to PinkNews, "the book casually mentions that the two women got married 'after the law was changed to allow it.'" It's not much of a storyline (it feels like a pretty minuscule baby step in our opinion) but it is the first time a same-sex relationship has been mentioned in an American Girl story, and it was enough to piss off