‘Gender Queer’ descriptions and interpretations of oral sex, and masturbation led to great controversy among parents.
On Monday, the National Education Association (NEA) recommended that teachers include the controversial book “Gender Queer” in their summer reading lists. The NEA’s “Great Summer Reads for Educators!” list featured 11 books, including “White Fragility,” which argues that White Americans use anger, shame, and guilt to evade responsibility for racial inequality.
The list also included sections such as “books to help you forget about work” and “books to celebrate or help you understand Juneteenth.”
In the “banned books” section, “Gender Queer” was recommended as a reading choice.
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“Gender Queer” has sparked significant controversy among American parents due to its presence in public school libraries nationwide. The book has faced challenges in its depictions and discussions of explicit content, including oral sex and masturbation.
In a previous report by Fox News Digital, Maia Kobabe, the author of “Gender Queer,” defended the sexually explicit graphic images in the memoir during an interview with NPR in January.
Kobabe stated, “And I honestly think the book is a lot less explicit than it could be.”
The author further explained, “The topic of gender touches on identity… and it touches on sexuality. And it’s hard to fully explain, I think, how gender identity can impact every facet of life as an adult without touching at least a little bit on sexuality. And I wanted to at least not shy away from that.”
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The book also explores Kobabe’s personal journey of self-discovery, as they navigate their identity beyond the confines of the traditional “gender binary.”
The inclusion of this book in the NEA’s list follows the declaration by the president of the National Education Association that racial and social justice is a fundamental aspect of the organization’s initiatives.
“For us at the NEA, education justice must encompass racial justice, social justice, and climate justice; it must encompass all of those aspects,” stated NEA President Becky Pringle.
“To ensure that our students arrive at school prepared to learn every day, we cannot view education in isolation, as everything is interconnected with our students’ ability to learn. Therefore, we must address issues of housing justice, and food inequality, and acknowledge the impact of the recent global pandemic, which disproportionately affected marginalized communities already grappling with inequities in every social system within our country and beyond.”
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“For us at the NEA, education justice must encompass racial justice, social justice, and climate justice; it must encompass all of those elements,” stated NEA President Becky Pringle.
“To ensure that our students come to school prepared to learn every day, we cannot view education as an isolated system; everything is interconnected with our students’ ability to learn. Therefore, we must engage in conversations about housing justice, and food inequality, and acknowledge the reality of the global pandemic that we have all experienced together. It is crucial to recognize that the most marginalized communities, which were already burdened by inequities in every social system within our country and across the globe, were disproportionately impacted.”