Johnson has been targeted in at least 15-states. Parents in other school districts around the country have also complained about Gender Queer.

Henry McMaster called for the removal of the book from public school shelves, declaring it “obscene” and “pornographic.” He said it was brought to his attention when parents recently rallied against it in the Fort Mill School District. In November, 2021, Republican South Carolina Gov. While sex is discussed in the book that also has drawings, it is not pornography because it is not intended to cause sexual excitement. The award-winning Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, tells the story of Kobabe’s journey to accepting eir identity as non-binary and asexual and explains ideas around gender and sexual identity. Matt Krause (R-TX) sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency that included a list of 850 books, including And Tango Makes Three, demanding schools share how many copies of each book they have and how much money they spent to obtain the books.

It faces constant challenges, and this year has been no different. Written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole, it tells the adorable story of two male penguins raising a baby penguin.Īnd Tango Makes Three was published in 2005 and has been the target of conservative anger ever since. This could be the most ridiculous member of the list, as And Tango Makes Three is a children’s picture book. The following six books, which have been challenged again and again, were written to do just that. Many of the books causing all of this vitriol are simply meant to help LGBTQ youth make sense of and love who they are in a world that (clearly) still won’t fully embrace them.

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