Federal Government Investigates Granbury ISD Superintendent's Order to Remove LGBTQ Books from School Libraries
, follows a complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union. It appears to be the first based on a nationwide movement pushed by conservatives to ban school library books dealing with sexuality and gender.
“It’s certainly the first investigation I’ve seen by the agency testing that argument in this way,” said W. Scott Lewis, managing partner at TNG, a consulting firm that advises school districts on complying with federal civil rights laws.when Granbury ISD Superintendent Jeremy Glenn met with librarians to discuss the move to ban books. A staff member in the meeting secretly recorded the conversation.
"Granbury is a very, very conservative community and our board is very, very conservative." Glenn was heard saying in the leaked recordingThe superintendent said 14-year-old girls would not be picking up books in school libraries about sex. "Let's call it what it is, and I'm cutting to the chase on this, it's the transgender, LGBTQ and the sex - sexuality in books. That's what the governor has said he will prosecute people for, and that's what we're pulling out," he said at one point during the closed-door meeting."There are two genders. There's male, and there's female. And I acknowledge that there are men that think they're women. And there are women that think they're men.
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