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What do you do if you’re a bigot who lives to ban books about groups you don’t like, but all the books about actual LGBTQ+ characters have already been banned? You move on to banning any book that is about aspiration or being true to yourself no matter what other people say—or even books about straight-up make-believe.
“Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn” is a picture book for young children about a kitty who wears a horn tied to her head, wishing she could be a unicorn—and then becomes best friends with a unicorn who wears a pair of kitty ears because he thinks cats are great. Obviously, obviously, in the year 2023, this is controversial. Because a colorfully illustrated story can’t just be about having friends who support you, or about learning that the friend you aspire to be more like also admires you and wishes they had something you have. Nope. According to the book-banner’s creed, this book must secretly be trying to make kids trans.
