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Mariah Carey is stepping up to support the transgender community. 

The pop icon is teaming up with LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD to auction off the “Protect the Dolls” jacket that she wore at this year’s Pride in the Park Music Festival in Brighton, England, on August 2. 

Mariah Carey auctions “Protect the Dolls” jacket to support GLAAD

Bidding on the pink rhinestone-encrusted jacket opens on December 8, with bidding starting at $0.99. The auction runs through December 15 at www.eBay.com/glaad. One hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program. 

“‘Protect the dolls’ is a phrase that has been used in support of transgender equality, specifically support for transgender women, originating in ballroom culture and popularized by a shirt from designer Conner Ives,” notes GLAAD. For more than two decades, the organization has worked to fairly and accurately tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, including transgender people, and raise awareness about transgender issues. GLAAD provides free media trainings to empower transgender people to share their stories.

Ives debuted his “Protect the Dolls” T-shirt at his fall 2025 runway show. Soon after, he decided to sell the shirt as a fundraiser for Trans Lifeline. Since then, many celebs have been spotted wearing the shirt, including Pedro Pascal, Addison Rae, Lisa Rinna, and Tilda Swinton. 

“When I think of the challenges that trans people in the States are facing right now, I just keep thinking about how scared I was when I was a 12 year old gay white boy in an upper middle class suburb of New York City,” Ives told Vogue (via Them.Us), “let alone a trans girl in the middle of America under an administration that’s basically telling her that she doesn’t exist.”

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