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Gender Queer A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autob...

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This was a book for young people that discussed gender identity. It contained graphic depictions of the author's personal experiences, such as being made to defecate outside by her parents and being given used pads. It was argued that the book didn't provide proper guidance for children experiencing these issues, but instead encouraged them to self-identify as transgender.

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That's the one where she talks about how she was severely abused by her parents and made to defecate outside.

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This was a book for young people that discussed gender identity. It contained graphic depictions of the author's personal experiences, such as being made to defecate outside by her parents and being given used pads. It was argued that the book didn't provide proper guidance for children experiencing these issues, but instead encouraged them to self-identify as transgender.

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That's the one where she talks about how she was severely abused by her parents and made to defecate outside.

And then they made her wear a used pad over and over again.

And she smelled so bad that the counselors brought her in and scolded her for not taking care of her hygiene.

And this is clearly not in the book. But anybody who reads it, who has any kind of logic understands this poor young woman in this book, genderqueer, was made to do her business outside by her parents.

When she went to school and was going through puberty, they gave her used dirty old pads.

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