Author Susan Kuklin: These teens wanted to let other kids know 'they are not alone'

Author Susan Kuklin wrote Beyond Magenta, which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books. (Kaz Fantone/NPR)

This essay by Susan Kuklin is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.

In 2014, when my book Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out was published, little had been written or said publicly about transgender and nonbinary teens.