<p>The author of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender</a> Queer,&#8221; the graphic novel with explicit sexual content that has shown up in public school libraries across the country, outraging parents, is saying her book is not actually for kids.</p>
<p>Last week, author Maia Kobabe, who identifies as non-binary and <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3474136-the-new-york-times-avoided-using-gender-queer-authors-genderless-pronouns-in-an-interview-readers-took-notice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uses</a> the pronouns &#8220;e, em and eir,&#8221; explained that while her book might be appropriate for &#8220;older teens,&#8221; she does not recommend it for children.</p>
<p>&#8220;It keeps being called a children’s book &#8230; but I think that’s coming from a misreading of the comic-book form. &#8216;Gender Queer&#8217; is a comic, and in full color, but that doesn’t mean it’s for children. I originally wrote it for my parents, and then for older teens who were already asking these questions about themselves. I don’t recommend this book for kids!&#8221; she <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/09/14/kennedy-senate-gender-queer-maia-kobabe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post in an interview published last week.</p>
<p>“Gender Queer” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yet-another-school-library-housed-graphic-novel-with-gay-sex-scenes">includes</a> illustrations of sex between two males with a sex toy, oral sex, masturbation, and other sexually explicit content.</p>
<p>Kobabe was reacting to Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) reading some of &#8220;Gender Queer&#8217;s&#8221; most graphic passages during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday last week.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sen. Kennedy reads passages from pornographic books Genderqueer and All Boys are Blue.</p>
<p>The Illinois Sec. of State Alexi Giannoulias responds by saying &quot;those words are disturbing coming from your mouth.&quot;</p>
<p>His state&#39;s new law stops parents from being able to remove it from… <a href="https://t.co/eDehdhctQL">pic.twitter.com/eDehdhctQL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1701628434894446999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The committee hearing was looking at a new Illinois law that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/book-ban-library-lgbtq-illinois-f5516941473e474712eaaafda084de76#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocks</a> funding to libraries that remove books from their collections. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-signs-bill-preventing-book-bans-while-standing-in-front-of-sexually-explicit-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the book ban bill in June in front of a shelf of contested books, including &#8220;Gender Queer.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the hearing, the 71-year-old senator read directly from the book, &#8220;I got a new strap-on harness today. I can&#8217;t wait to put it on you. It will fit my favorite dildo perfectly. You&#8217;re going to look so hot. I can&#8217;t wait to have your c**k in my mouth. I&#8217;m going to give you the blow job of your life. Then I want you inside of me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, it&#8217;s very disturbing,&#8221; Illinois Secretary of State Alexander Giannoulias responded to Kennedy.</p>
<p>In the Washington Post&#8217;s interview of Kobabe, the interviewer acknowledged that she would not give &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; to &#8220;a grade-schooler in my life.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But I could see recommending it to my kid if they were 17,&#8221; the Washington Post columnist told Kobabe. &#8220;If they were looking into chest binding, for example — I’d rather they learn about how to do it safely, as you discuss in the book, instead of winging it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chest binding is a practice where gender dysphoric biological girls or women use a tight undergarment to compress their breasts in order to look flat-chested. Binding can <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/chest-binding-can-lead-to-chronic-pain-this-genderqueer-massage-therapist-wants-to-help/2018/12/26/cfadf6cc-0493-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> <a href="https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-chest-binding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a litany</a> of <a href="https://www.statsforgender.org/binding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">negative</a> <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691058.2016.1191675?journalCode=tchs20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">effects</a> including rib fractures, shortness of breath, and chronic back and chest pain.</p>
<p>Kobabe responded by suggesting that reading &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; could be a better option for &#8220;young readers&#8221; than Googling answers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many books that are being challenged often wrestle with a difficult topic, like historical atrocities, or experiences of racism, or something dealing with sexual health. &#8230; I would rather young readers encounter information in books than in random unstructured Googling,&#8221; Kobabe said.</p>

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