If students in a western Michigan school district want to read the graphic novel ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir,’ they'll have to meet with a school counselor who will then call their parents for permission. This is the ‘compromise’ that the Spring Lake School Board reached in a 4-3 vote after a contentious Monday night meeting. The board met in order to discuss a parent who wanted Gender Queer to be removed from the district's library shelves. The memoir, written by Maia Kobabe, covers eir experience discovering and accepting eir nonbinary and asexual identities. The book doubles as an instructive guide for those exploring their own identities.
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