Read Banned Books: Gender Queer: A Memoir

A memoir in graphic-novel form by nonbinary author and cartoonist Maia Kobabe, first published in 2019. It was acquired by many libraries after it won a 2020 Alex Award, given by the American Library Association for 'books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18'. It was also designated a Stonewall Honor Book, another American Library Association award, that same year.

2022 (Virginia): Virginia state delegate Tim Anderson and Congressional candidate Tommy Altman filed an obscenity suit in Virginia Beach in 2022, to prevent this book, along with Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury, from being made available in libraries and bookstores where they could be accessed by minors. Virginia Beach school libraries removed the book from their shelves, but the suit was dismissed by circuit court judge Pamela Baskervill, who found that not only did the book not meet the standard for obscenity under Virginia law, but that Virginia's law was unconstitutional.
2023 (Michigan): Lapeer County prosecutor John Miller threatened to file criminal charges against workers at the Lapeer District Library unless they removed this book from their shelves. Library director Amy Churchill is reported as 'undeterred' by the prosecutor's threat against the book, which was added to the collection in 2022 following a patron request, shelved in the adult section of the library, and was at the time of the linked article undergoing the library's usual consideration process for removal that another patron initiated.

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Title:	Gender Queer: A Memoir
Author:	Maia Kobabe
First published:	2019