An item billed as the "world's first transgender doll" has been debuted at the New York Toy Fair, which drew to a close earlier this week.

The doll is based on 16-year-old transgender activist and YouTube personality Jazz Jennings who, born a boy, transitioned to living as a girl at age five.

The doll, which is 18in high, will be priced at £71 when it goes on sale this July. It was created by the Tonner Doll Company, who modeled it on Ms Jennings, and comes dressed in a pink shirt and jeans shorts, similar to those worn by Jennings on the cover of her memoir, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen.