Via TWS:
The speed with which the transgender agenda is moving may end up making the same-sex marriage debate look slow and deliberative by comparison. And now Scholastic, the children’s publisher that specializes in distributing and selling books through schools, is poised to bring the issue to a middle school classroom near you. The medium is George, the story of an eight year old boy named George who desperately wants to be considered a girl.
George is the first effort by author Alex Gino, self-described on Facebook as a “[p]rogressive middle grade novelist, author of GEORGE (fall 2015, Scholastic). Fat queer activist, glitter liberationist, urban gardener, and then some.” Gino’s bio on Twitter is similar:
Although the book will not be published until August, Scholastic is sending pre-publication copies to teachers for feedback on the novel.
