If you’ve been on booktok in the past 72 hours, you’ve probably seen this book floating around. 17 year old twins and their stepdad. Yes, that’s right, a MMM throuple with twin UNDERAGE boys and their stepdad. Not only is this book literal pedophilia, but also feeds into the harmful rhetoric that gay men are predators. For fuck sake, this book is written by a cisgender queer woman. You being a queer woman doesn’t fucking matter, you can still fetishize gay men no matter your sexuality. She’s tried defending her book by saying that she can’t fetishize gay men if she’s queer herself. No, you CAN fetishize gay men no matter if you are straight or queer.

My booktok account is @rhys.reads and I’ve made 3 videos on this authors terrible behaviour. On her instagram story, she had posted 4 or 5 pictures and one of them had a very transphobic line in it. It’s in my first video (the cover on my account says ‘double-edged and ss4 (tw: transphobic insta stories)’). The quote was ‘Stop invalidating the words of your fellow gays because we don’t have a penis.’

Why is this transphobic? It’s because she is insinuating that she thinks if a gay man doesn’t have a penis, he’s not a man. She is saying that trans men who don’t have a penis aren’t real men. She is saying that trans women who do have a penis aren’t real women. And that is truly disgusting and vile.

I called her out on it. I tried to reach out privately to describe it to her. She blocked me on both TikTok AND Instagram.

She had then made a TikTok story saying she was ‘being called transphobic by more misguided people…’ You realize what you are insinuating, right? You are calling transgender people ‘misguided’. You are calling transgender ally’s ‘misguided’. All because you don’t want to apologize for your shitty action. You are actively being transphobic by calling transgender people and trans ally’s ‘misguided’.

She then tried to say that ‘nothing I’ve said or shared has the remotest inkling of transphobia.’ Oh? So you’re going to ignore my voice as a transgender man? You’re going to ignore the voices of trans ally’s who see your words are transphobic? We aren’t reaching. Maybe take a fucking step back and realize that you are a CISgender person, and a TRANSgender person is calling you out for your actions and words.

I have also had a few people block me since making my videos, and if I’m feeling petty, I will say their tiktok usernames so you know who not to support. One tried to say she didn’t block me because of my videos, but I was able to see her account before I posted my videos, and now I can’t, so, hmm.

If you still support Nyla K, you are transphobic.

She’s also trying to say that since queer women have been fetishized since the beginning of time, it’s okay if she fetishizes gay men! Yeah, no. It doesn’t work like that. She has said that her books are ‘written with more support and love for the LGBTQ+ community than any haters can fathom without reading them.’ Uhm, girl. You know what reviews are saying about this specific book who have read it? That you play into the harmful rhetoric of gay men being predators. That you play into homophobia, biphobia, misogyny, and fetishizing.

Oh, and the author doesn’t actually put trigger warnings at the beginning of the book. She CLAIMS she does, but her foreword is her ranting about ‘delicate people’. Here is a trigger warning list from a review:

grooming of minors, statutory rape, homophobia, misogyny, incest, dubious consent between minors, non-consent, non-consensual filming of a sexual act, homophobic violence by a parent resulting in a major injury, drug and alcohol use.