The conservative lawmaker tried to shock America by reading aloud from ‘Gender Queer.’ He should have kept reading.
“I got a new strap-on harness today,” Kennedy drawled, peering through his spectacles from the dais of the Senate Judiciary Committee and reading the words into the official record of U.S. government. “I can’t wait to put it on you. It will fit my favorite dildo perfectly.” Gender Queer: A Memoir
,” a coming-of-age comic book by Maia Kobabe that was published in 2019 and became the most challenged book of 2021 and 2022, according to the American Library Association. Kennedy’s argument: that librarians alone shouldn’t get to “decide whether the two books that I just referenced should be available to kids.”
I called up Kobabe to talk about what, exactly, had happened. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.I have seen the clip. Another trans-activist friend texted it to me with a very, “Congratulations and also I’m sorry” attitude.The main thing was it was very clear that the senator picked the one page out of a 240-page book that he thought would be the most shocking. And it’s interesting he chose to read the wordsshowing the images.
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