The National Education Association included “Gender Queer” — PEN America’s titleholder for most banned book of 2022-23 — among its summer reading list for educators. Statements circulating that this list was intended for students are incorrect.
Featured Fact-checkProtests of at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a"virtually empty stadium for the game itself.”PEN America, which advocates for free expression and tracks books that are challenged in schools and libraries, called it the mosttoward coming out as nonbinary — having a gender identity that is not solely male or female. But critics have seized on the sexually explicit illustrations in the book as one reason for concern.
"I honestly think the book is a lot less explicit than it could be or would have been if written by a different author," Kobabe said in an about the criticism."The topic of gender touches on identity and touches on sexuality, and it touches on all of these things."Representing 3 million members, the NEA promotes traditionally liberal causes, with the majority of itsThe organizationAn NEA spokesperson told PolitiFact in an email that the reading list"was prepared for education professionals."A July 5 Fox News chyron read,"‘Gender Queer’ on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids.
The NEA did recommend"Gender Queer" to its members, but it titled its list as being"for educators" and has since clarified in an editor’s note that this was recommended reading for adults, not students.
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