I had always been very confident and social and suddenly there I was, no longer confident and social, and I had no idea why. “When puberty hit, I remember this awful feeling. “When I was 12, I didn’t have any access to that,” notes Gavynn McKay, a 27-year-old transgender person who wishes “The Other Boy” had been around when he experienced the “discomfort and detachment from my body” that accompanies gender dysphoria. Or are they aspirational beacons rooted in reality, designed to foment equity in a school system that struggles to meet the needs of all students, no different than the Judy Blume novels and Degrassi Junior High episodes that pushed boundaries in generations past? What I can say is that such provocative descriptors as “misleading” and “inappropriate” applied to respected LGBTQ2S+ materials are bound to create blowback, which is exactly what happened when the school board cited the human rights code, cut off her presentation and issued an apology to the trans community.īut as a parent with formative roots in the primeval, pre-woke ’70s, with two grade school kids for whom these novels were presumably intended, I was curious about the source of this local brouhaha, given the books’ impressive credentials.Īre these left-wing propaganda tools to indoctrinate youth into an LGBTQ2S+ lifestyle through stealth and deception, as some critics allege, pushing puberty blockers and testosterone therapy? I’m not an expert on child psychology, nor can I surmise the motives of the teacher levelling the allegations, who says she “fully supports human rights of transgender people.” Take the trans friendly books that sparked controversy when a local public school teacher raised concerns over their “age appropriateness” in school libraries and called them “misleading” and “inappropriate.” Out of context, you can make anything look bad.
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