Ursula le Guin's Earthsea saga is regularly regarded as one of the foundational pillars of young adult fiction, specifically fantasy. Foremost, I enjoy what I have read so far of this book and this is no way a takedown of at least the first book.

However, there is a matriarchal civilization in this fantasy world which includes castrated men as servants to a holy order of priestesses. I know EXACTLY how a book like this would be treated if those sexes were reversed. I do not advocate banning books or anything of the sort, but the notion of this book as a YOUNG adult novel is absurd and I doubt the theme of MGM is ever brought up in an English class studying Ursula's works.