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Ban Taking Books Out of Public Library Collections Aimed At Children Over Sexuality, Gender Identity, Ayana Pressley Says

December 14, 2023

U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) has filed a bill designed to ban public libraries and school libraries from excluding from their collection “books written or illustrated by an individual who is a member of an underrepresented community.”

“Underrepresented community” includes racial minorities, homosexuals, people who identify with a  gender identity that does not correspond to their biological sex, and members of a religious minority, according to the bill, which Pressley titled the “Books Save Lives Act.”

A press release put out by Pressley’s office on Thursday, December 14 quotes Maia Kobabe, the author of a book called Gender Queer, as supporting the bill in the face of what the press release calls “the alarming rise of censorship.”

Critics of such books say they send a false and harmful message about human sexuality to children who shouldn’t have to hear or read such things.

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