Posted on Jan 20, 2022
Author of 'Gender Queer,' one of most-banned books in U.S., addresses controversy
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On a late night in September, nonbinary author Maia Kobabe was tagged in a viral video of a school board meeting in Fairfax County, Virginia. The clip showed a parent shouting at a panel of board members while holding Kobabe’s award-winning book, “Gender Queer: A Memoir.”
Telling Kobabe’s story from adolescence to adulthood, the 2019 fully illustrated book is a de facto guide on gender identity that grapples with the hardships of coming out, the confusion of adolescent crushes and the trauma of being nonbinary in a society that largely sees gender as limited to two categories: man and woman.
Telling Kobabe’s story from adolescence to adulthood, the 2019 fully illustrated book is a de facto guide on gender identity that grapples with the hardships of coming out, the confusion of adolescent crushes and the trauma of being nonbinary in a society that largely sees gender as limited to two categories: man and woman.
Author of 'Gender Queer,' one of most-banned books in U.S., addresses controversy
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How about letting parents decide for themselves? You can't ban a book just because a few people find it offensive. If we banned everything that offended someone, we would have nothing left. Ford fans want to ban Chevys. Chevy fans want to band Dodge. Yankees fans want to ban the Red Sox. Where does it end?
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SFC Casey O'Mally
I agree. Let's go ahead and stock Hustler in the school library, too. Let the parents decide for themselves.
Oh, wait, the parents DID decide. The book was pulled after PARENTS OBJECTED.
Oh, wait, the parents DID decide. The book was pulled after PARENTS OBJECTED.
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SrA John Monette
But those parents made the decision for every other parent. So let's have the christian parents pull any references to Muslims or Jews from the shelves too. Because that's fair!
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SrA John Monette
SP5 Dennis Loberger - Sounds familiar, like it has happened somewhere within the past 100 years
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."But for its handful of graphic illustrations of LGBTQ sexual experiences — out of the book’s hundreds of drawings — the parent, Stacy Langton, passionately argued that it should be removed from school shelves.
“Pornography is offensive to all people. It is offensive to common decency,” Langton, who has two sons attending a high school within Fairfax County Public Schools, protested.
That night, Kobabe watched the video on mute, thought little of it and went to sleep.
“At that moment, I definitely thought, ‘This is just going to be a one-off incident,’ you know? ‘This is just one school district; this is just one parent,’” Kobabe told NBC News.
The next morning, Kobabe — who uses gender-neutral pronouns e, em and eir — woke up to a slew of emails from journalists at The Associated Press and local Washington, D.C., news stations requesting interviews."...
..."But for its handful of graphic illustrations of LGBTQ sexual experiences — out of the book’s hundreds of drawings — the parent, Stacy Langton, passionately argued that it should be removed from school shelves.
“Pornography is offensive to all people. It is offensive to common decency,” Langton, who has two sons attending a high school within Fairfax County Public Schools, protested.
That night, Kobabe watched the video on mute, thought little of it and went to sleep.
“At that moment, I definitely thought, ‘This is just going to be a one-off incident,’ you know? ‘This is just one school district; this is just one parent,’” Kobabe told NBC News.
The next morning, Kobabe — who uses gender-neutral pronouns e, em and eir — woke up to a slew of emails from journalists at The Associated Press and local Washington, D.C., news stations requesting interviews."...
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SFC Casey O'Mally
SrA John Monette No. The school board decides for all of the parents based on the input of all of the parents. It's why we elect representatives.
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