Police investigated a claim last month that a sexually explicit book had been shown to children at a middle school in Great Barrington, a town in western Massachusetts.
The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, a self-described trans nonbinary person who uses "e/em/eir" pronouns, is labeled 18+ by Amazon. The book tells Kobabe's story of coming to identify as non-binary in graphic novel form. It was published in 2019.