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The publishing industry is cranking out books based on the murderous nihilism of the trans community and marketing them to kids.
This is how The New York Times summarizes Manhunt, a novel the newspaper celebrates alongside works by James Baldwin and Adrienne Rich as among the “Top 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature”:
Men are monsters, infected by the T. rex virus, which turns anything with enough testosterone into a vicious, braindead killing machine. In what remains of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Beth and Fran, two old friends and trans women, are forced to pick off the changed men in order to harvest their testicles, the best supply of estrogen around and their only means to keep from joining the plague of men.
In Gretchen Felker-Martin’s 2022 post-apocalyptic horror novel, transgender protagonists kill biological men and eat their testicles, all while on the run from an army of what the novel calls TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists)—or, in normal parlance, women who know men cannot become women.
Indeed, according to Manhunt’s fans, the book’s real villains are the TERFs rather than the men. The plot, replete with rape and bizarre sex, portrays its transgender characters first enslaved by the TERFs and then savagely avenging themselves on these women. Along the way, it does not miss the opportunity to describe the violent death of J. K. Rowling.
The author, Felker-Martin, a 6’4” 36-year-old male who goes by “she” and “her,” is not shy about his violent fantasies. These spill over into his support on social media for the very real-life violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians, writing of Rowling that he hopes “someone splits her skull,” and gloating over the shooting of Charlie Kirk (for which DC Comics cancelled a new “Robin” series Felker-Martin was writing). By every indication, the book and its author are both demented.
Yet Manhunt has been ecstatically celebrated in mainstream and elite media institutions. The New Yorker calls it “a filthy, furious delight,” The New York Times says it’s “tons of fun.” Esquire, Library Journal, Gizmodo, and Booklist put it on their year’s best lists, while Cosmopolitan declared it one of the best horror novels of all time.
Lilly—formerly Andy—Wachowski, one of the two transgender brothers who directed the Matrix movies, is developing Manhunt as a television series.
Writers have always produced scabrous satires, but what is notable about the mainstream lionization of Felker-Martin is that his reviewers do not treat the book as satire. Instead, they make claims for its realism. As the reviewer for NPR wrote, “enforcing gender kills people, That’s true today; Manhunt just takes it to an extreme.”
Manhunt is at least intended for adults. Can the same be said for Felker-Martin’s 2024 follow-up, Cuckoo, a NPR best book of the year about “seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp”?
The American Library Association’s Booklist tells us that the book “fairly vibrates with rage at those who seek to harm or fail to protect queer kids.” In addition to rage, the book includes anal sex with strap-ons and a variety of sexual horrors.
Yet Macmillan Publishers, parent company of the book’s publisher Tor, includes Cuckoo in its 2024 list of “Adult Books for Teens,” quoting Booklist (“Teen readers who can handle the content will feel seen by this queer-informed horror novel”) and Library Journal (“Seething with anger at horrors both real and supernatural, Felker-Martin’s novel sets out to incite readers and inspire them to protect queer kids”).
Also marketed explicitly to teens are the violent trans fantasies of Andrew Joseph White. White’s bestselling 2022 debut, the YA sci-fi novel Hell Followed With Us, published by Peachtree Teen, is described on Amazon as “A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.” The oppressors here appear to be evil Christians or “those who use God as a cover for genocide.” --->LOTS MORE HERE
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