Police then notified the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office, though the investigation was eventually dropped because the office determined the matter was to be “managed within the Berkshire Hills Regional School District,” the New York Post
reported.
The incident caused an uproar from LGBT advocates and others on the Left, including the state’s Democrat Governor Maura Healey, who said, “Book banning has no place in Massachusetts.”
Healey presumably believes there is not a single book that should be off-limits to children in publicly-funded schools.
As highlighted by
The Daily Wire, even the book’s author, Maia Kobabe, has said the content is not for children. Kobabe, who identifies as non-binary and
uses the pronouns “e, em, and eir,” said that while her book might be appropriate for “older teens,” she does not recommend it for children.
“It keeps being called a children’s book … but I think that’s coming from a misreading of the comic-book form. ‘Gender Queer’ 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!” she
told The Washington Post in an interview published back in September.