“…In our previous paper on this topic (McGraw & van Leent, 2018), we addressed the onus of responsibility for creators of authorized text lists to take issue with the persistence of heteronormativity in Australian Curriculum resources, by listing texts that represent diverse sexualities. In this paper, we turn our attention to "hetero-cisgender-normativity" and the most-used text list in the state of Queensland in the senior English curriculum: Prescribed text list: English/ EAL, analyzing texts appearing in the lists for (QCAA, 2018a and 2023-2025(QCAA, 2021a. For teachers, we hope this analysis provides an insight into the pervasiveness of hetero-cis-norms in the literature chosen for you and your students in schools, and that it provides an opportunity for reflexive practices for teachers of literature and critical literacy, school librarians, and those in power of text selection processes.…”