Best-selling LGBTQ book on Amazon is an anti-transgender picture book

Matt Walsh
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The current best-selling LGBTQ book on Amazon is an anti-transgender picture book by a far-right pundit who wants to ban same-sex couples from adopting.

LGBTQ readers looking for their next book on Amazon might be a little surprised by the selection topping the “Best Sellers in LGBTQ+ Books” chart: Johnny the Walrus by the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh.

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LGBTQ best-sellers on Amazon

The book is about a boy named Johnny “with a big imagination.” He likes to pretend to be different things until “the internet people find out Johnny likes to make-believe, he’s forced to make a decision between the little boy he is and the things he pretends to be — and he’s not allowed to change his mind.”

According to Media Matters, Johnny first pretends to be a walrus by using spoons as tusks. Then he puts on gray makeup, and then visits “a doctor who offers a ‘simple procedure’ to cut his ‘feet into fins!’”

The book is intended to mock transgender youth, comparing the experience of gender dysphoria to pretending to be a walrus.

The book’s reference to surgery comes from one of the right’s favorite attacks on trans equality: the claim that…

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