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Western Massachusetts Police Chief Apologizes For School Search For Explicit Book ‘Gender Queer’

December 24, 2023

When Great Barrington police received a call earlier this month that a middle school teacher had handed students a book depicting animated sex acts, a plainclothes officer visited the school. The officer could not locate the book.

Now, the department is apologizing for sending anyone at all.

“As the Chief of Police for the Great Barrington Police Department, I apologize to anyone who was negatively effected [sic] by our involvement at the W.E.B. Dubois Middle School on December 8, 2023,” Chief Paul Storti said in a statement to CNN on Thursday, December 21.

The incident took place on Friday, December 8 at W.E.B. Dubois Middle School for grades 5 through 8. Children grades 5-8 are typically in the age range of 10 to 14.

The book in question, Gender Queer:  A Memoir, tells the story of the author’s journey to identifying as transgender. The book portrays several characters, including the author, performing various sex acts and discusses masturbation, menstruation, and oral sex, among other things.

The book is listed as being for readers 18 and older on Amazon.

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