I had the delightful experience of listening to this as an audiobook. (It was its own hilarity because a transman narrated. At no point was I able to suspend disbelief and even pretend the book was about a guy because it all just sounded like a woman with a slightly sore throat.) But, just for you, I will go in search of a print copy tomorrow to pull some quotes from the best sections.

I will tell you now that the author is clearly someone who hate read our old sub and r/GC. Both of the villains have intentionally bad, half-formed straw men from both places. (Let me reiterate that the villains are the only gay and lesbian characters.)

this book is so much propaganda to children

Unfortunately, that’s what YA has become. Everything is hyper woke to the point that most books are really just a Twitter rant with a loose shell of a plot around it. This sort of chicanery is also bleeding into middle grade and children’s books.

Even worse, this particular gem went further than your basic anti-LBG diatribe. Towards the beginning, it essentially gives instructions for how to get a referral to a gender clinic. Several times it encourages kids to go to online forums to learn about their gender. Later, it walks the reader through the process of getting hormones and top surgery. It wraps up nicely at the end with Felix giving a dramatic speech about how being trans makes her special and interesting deserving of love and “like a god.” (No, I’m not fucking around. That’s an exact quote.)