Green, who wrote his first story at the age of 12 on his gran’s typewriter, insists that a book offers a genuinely safe space to discuss scary or confusing content, compared with the “wild west of nightmares” awaiting young people online. He notes the unprecedented swathe of book bans across the US: “It dismays me that books so often are the target when there are genuinely harmful things online for young people, which seemingly just get away with it.” There is absolutely a link between growing homophobia and the raging culture war around transgender rights There is “absolutely” a link between growing homophobia and the raging culture war around transgender rights, he says. “To be fair, trans people were warning about this.
