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Queer as folk season 111/8/2022 Jeff Cason called on the state's attorney general to investigate "sexually explicit material in public schools," including Gender Queer.Īnother Texas lawmaker running for attorney general identified a list of 850 books that he says should be questioned many of those books are written by women, people of color and LGBTQ authors. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the state's school board association saying public schools shouldn't have "pornographic or obscene material." He did not provide any specific examples of content.īut Texas state Rep. McMaster's call is the latest instance of Republican elected leaders and local school board members lashing out at books in school libraries that address topics such as queer identity, racism and sex education. "I call on the Department of Education or the State Board of Education, as appropriate, to promulgate statewide standards and directives to prevent pornography and other obscene content from entering our State's public schools and libraries," the governor said in a letter sent Wednesday to the superintendent of education. The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, is recommended for grades 10 and up by its publisher and tells an autobiographical story of a person who is grappling with their gender and sexual identity. He says the content in the book is "sexually explicit" and "pornographic." Henry McMaster is telling his state's department of education to investigate a graphic novel on queer identity being available at a school's library. In the latest call from Republican leaders to ban certain books in schools, South Carolina Gov.
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