“I feel like my book in particular has been caught up in a viral social media moment because it’s a comic, because you can snap a pic of one panel you disagree with and share it completely removed from context of the rest of the book, it gets shared without people ever seeing the book or reading the whole thing,” Kobabe said. The recent uproar over the “Gender Queer” book is only part of Kobabe’s story — a personal narrative that has served as an inspiration to young people who have grappled with questions about gender identity.