The U.S. Department of Education has opened a federal investigation into a Texas school district, alleging that officials violated the rights of LGBTQ students when they ordered librarians to remove books with LGBTQ themes from schools.
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The investigation, which was opened on December 6, notes that the superintendent of the Granbury Independent School District, located in northern Texas, used transphobic language during a meeting with school librarians earlier this year. “There are two genders. There’s male, and there’s female,” Granbury ISD superintendent Jeremy Glenn wrongly asserted. “And I acknowledge that there are men that think they’re women. And there are women that think they’re men. And again, I don’t have any issues with what people want to believe, but there’s no place for it in our libraries.”
Glenn made clear to his employees which books he specifically wanted removed. “It’s the transgender, LGBTQ and the sex — sexuality — in books,”Contrary to Glenn’s comments, experts agree that gender is a spectrum and that there are a diverse range of gender identities outside of male and female.
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