Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Books about the lives of queer people are

often the ones targeted by conservative groups. Of course, that's never the stated reason in a bit.

We'll hear from Maya Kobe, whose book Gender Queer is one of the most banned books out there.

One of the reasons, on paper, at least, is for its sexually explicit material.

We'll hear more about it in sec. But first, Beyond Magenta by Susan Cucklin takes a more

anthropological approach to teens and gender identity. For her book, she talked to young

trans teens and crafted a candid and genuine look at their lives. And Cucklin tells NPR Steve Inskeep that most of the complaints about the book

aren't about gender identity, but it will be about someone, say, talking about how they

were sexually abused, and so the book gets deemed as explicit.

And it's interesting to hear her talk about a story that she took as an inspiring message

of survival and see it get twisted into something else.

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We've been reading some banned books.

There works that people try to get out of public schools and libraries.

In our coverage,

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