Teen book, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, features 17 year old with mastectomy scars on the cover

submitted by worried19 from self.GenderCritical

I was on Ovarit yesterday, and someone posted about a new teen book that shows a 17 year old with mastectomy scars on the cover.

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

The main character in this story had a mastectomy at 16 years old and is on testosterone. You can clearly see the scars from the surgery on the cover, and the character is still a legal child. Yet this book is being heaped with lavish praise. Not one reviewer that I could find had even the slightest reservation about a 16 year old having healthy breasts removed. Not one reviewer had the slightest qualms about a natal female minor who is still in high school being given irreversible testosterone injections.

Maybe the crowd of people who normally read teen books tends to be TRA to begin with, but it's alarming because I was under the impression the general public doesn't know what's really happening to kids and teenagers. Many activists will deny that children are ever touched before their 18th birthday. Many say that no one is given surgery under 18, when in fact there are verified cases of children being given mastectomies at 13 and testosterone even younger.

I feel like I'm going crazy. Does the mainstream really believe it is okay for a character like Felix to have these irreversible procedures done? Do they understand that Felix may never be able to have a biological child due to testosterone treatment? Do they understand that even if Felix is still fertile, Felix would never be able to nurse their own child because their breasts were removed? Why is is acceptable for an author, who to no one's surprise is also a natal female person with a new name and identification, to promote the idea that this is healthy and good for children? The author is an adult. The character that the author is writing about is a child.

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[–]our_team_is_winning 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The first time I read about women's breasts being cut off I was reading about the "witch" insanity in Early Modern Europe and also the behavior of some more recent serial killers. Cutting women's breasts off is some sick hateful male fantasy that they have conned women (girls!) into falling for.

Perhaps they will make other books in the series like the anorexic, the cutter, the heroin addict -- they're not girls with serious problems, they're role models!

All I can say is I wonder how many boxes of the Jazz Jennings doll are piled up in some warehouse unsold? Hopefully this book will be sitting unsold alongside it. Hopefully it's an e-book so fewer trees were lost in the making of this garbage.

[–]worried19[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Apparently it's a bestselling hardcover book and was also picked up for a TV series.

https://deadline.com/2020/08/amazon-kacen-callender-felix-ever-after-1203025246

[–]our_team_is_winning 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks for the info. This makes my heart hurt.

The plot --- <Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. >

THIS is the message being sent to young black girls? Cut off your breasts and jump on the trans train?

This is from Wiki: <Callender is Black, queer, trans, and uses they/them and he/him pronouns>

They AND He? And oddly has a degree in JAPANESE (for all the Yaoi reading???)

From an interview "they" gave:

<The very first inspiration was the realization that I’m a demiboy, after questioning my identity even after coming out and starting my physical transition as nonbinary. I’d never heard the term demiboy before, and I was literally so excited to find this perfect label that I wanted to write a whole book about it. >

Demiboy?????

I can't say that "society" is failing our young women because society has always been sexist, racist, whatever-ist, that has not changed. The only thing that I can see which has changed is the wholesale push for this "queer" LARPing. She probably could have just been a popular female children's author instead of diving into the Woke Niche.

https://thequietpond.com/2020/06/17/our-friend-is-here-pride-month-edition-an-interview-with-kacen-callender-author-of-felix-ever-after-on-writing-themself-into-stories-and-telling-stories-that-empower-trans-and-enby-teens/

[–]TurtleFuzz 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is absolutely horrible :(

[–]meranii 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I feel like I'm reading satire, when really it's some mentally ill woman's weird revenge fantasies in ultra-woke book form.

[–]yishengqingwa666 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course.

[–]slushpilot 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's total fiction. All of it.

Read the book description, and realize this is being promoted as an aspirational character story for teens. "Falling in love for the first time", etc. I'm not expecting a very deep character here. It's all made up crap! (And why would someone think it's acceptable to transition before falling in love for the first time!?)

This is infuriating.

[–]worried19[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's disturbing that teenagers are being encouraged to make irreversible medical choices before they've even explored their own sexuality. They've never had a relationship. They've never lived on their own. They're not old enough to vote or even drive in many cases. Yet certain activists have decided they're old enough to decide to sterilize themselves and cut their breasts off.

Also interesting that Felix is described as "queer." I wonder what that means. Is the character dating a natal boy? Or a natal girl? According to a review, this book also contains a "demiboy."

[–]yishengqingwa666 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Kacen"? Jesus fucking Christ, another unhinged TIF with a stupid-ass, clichéd name.

This book is also fucking horrific.

[–]FearfulFriend 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I read this book. It was sad. There's a scene where the kid has a fight with her father because he doesn't want her to stay the night with a male friend. "I bet if I had been born with a penis, you would let me stay!" like this is a valid argument. Then the kid feels bad because her dad has spent a lot of money paying for her sex change. But then the kid wants more than anything else in the world for her dad to accept her as a boy. It was just super sad. If this is how kids really feel, it must be hellish for all involved.