The fight is particularly heated in Texas, where Republican state officials, including Gov. Last fall, some national groups involved in that effort - including No Left Turn in Education and Moms for Liberty - began circulating lists of school library books that they said were “ indoctrinating kids to a dangerous ideology.”Īnd during his successful bid for governor in Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin made parents’ opposition to explicit books a central theme in the final stretch of his campaign, leading some GOP strategists to flag the issue as a winning strategy heading into the 2022 midterm elections. Similar debates are roiling communities across the country, fueled by parents, activists and Republican politicians who have mobilized against school programs and classroom lessons focused on LGBTQ issues and the legacy of racism in America. Read more: Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries Hundreds of titles have been pulled from libraries across the state for review, sometimes over the objections of school librarians, several of whom told NBC News they face increasingly hostile work environments and mounting pressure to pre-emptively pull books that might draw complaints.
Her safe haven is now a battleground in an unprecedented effort by parents and conservative politicians in Texas to ban books dealing with race, sexuality and gender from schools, an NBC News investigation has found. You should be able to see yourself reflected on the page.” “And I’m sure it’s really important to other queer kids. “As I’ve struggled with my own identity as a queer person, it’s been really, really important to me that I have access to these books,” said the girl, whom NBC News is not naming to avoid revealing her sexuality. Some titles were removed after parents formally complained, but others were quietly banned by the district without official reviews. Also banished: “The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Lawn Boy” - all coming-of-age stories that prominently feature LGBTQ characters and passages about sex. Gone: “Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts),” a book she’d read last year about a gay teenager who isn’t shy about discussing his adventurous sex life. But books, including one of her recent favorites, have been vanishing from the shelves of Katy Independent School District libraries the past few months.
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