Summary

Gender Queer opens with Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, remembering when e moved to San Francisco in 2013 at the age of 24 to get a master's degree in comics. E had planned to write fiction, but in an autobiography class, a teacher asked the students to write about their demons. Kobabe realized eir demons were all related to gender.

After the title page, Kobabe's story begins at age three, when e lived in a house in Northern California with eir parents and baby sister. It was 1992. Kobabe's neighbors had three children, including a three-year-old boy named Galen, who became Kobabe's close friend growing up. Kobabe developed an interest in snakes at this time. Galen and Kobabe attended a Waldorf elementary school, where they were sometimes separated because the other boys did not want Kobabe to play with them because e was...