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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Josh Taylor

UNCOVERED: Australian classification board rejects calls to restrict graphic novel gender queer - Caught on Camera

Gender Queer by non-binary writer Maia Kobabe
Australia’s Classification Review Board has found the graphic novel-style memoir Gender Queer by non-binary writer Maia Kobabe is ‘appropriate for its intended audience’. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP

Australia’s Classification Review Board has rejected calls to restrict access to a memoir about gender identity that has been the target of conservative campaigns to have it banned in the United States, finding the content is appropriate for its intended audience.

Rightwing activist Bernard Gaynor applied to the board earlier this year to review the classification of Gender Queer by non-binary writer Maia Kobabe, a graphic novel-style memoir about gender identity.

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