A US state shelved my book – yet all I was doing was trying to help children | Fox Fisher

The Trans Teen Survival Guide was motivated by my own struggles. Removing it from libraries is part of the historic erasure of books about identity

I check Twitter and nearly spit out my coffee. I'm tagged in a post by the Florida Freedom To Read Project, stating that a number of library books have been taken off the shelves, including mine.

I stare at a photograph of a trolley full of banned books, rounded up in one day, in one library, and locate the black spine of the Trans Teen Survival Guide - a book that I wrote with my partner, Owl. It is sitting next to a book called This Book Is Anti-Racist, and I think to myself that you can't get much more explicit than that in your agenda to ban books that are meant to support people.

Fox Fisher is an author, artist and co-director of My Genderation films