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A character who is transgender. A book explaining gender identity. A story about a child trying to understand why they feel different. Information about transition. A memoir that tells a transgender person’s story.
In Alabama, those subjects are now enough to get books pushed out of library sections intended for children and teenagers.
The Alabama Public Library Service’s administrative code requires public libraries receiving state aid to keep sections for people under 18 free of material deemed obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate. Then the rule does something remarkable: it specifically declares materials regarding “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders” inappropriate for children and youth.
Those materials must be removed from youth sections and either weeded from the collection or relocated to the adult section.
The unofficial state motto of Alabama is “thank God for Mississippi”.
Because in most statistics, only Mississippi keeps Alabama from being the absolute worst state of the entire union.
I always find it astonishing that Mississippi, the state with what is the largest proportion of black people, hasn’t elected a black person to statewide office in over a century and is deep red.
Absolutely vile.
Not really that surprising, since almost all of the Deep South states have disproportionately large black populations for the same reason that they have disproportionately tiny black representation in public offices…
Don’t get me wrong, though: the predictability doesn’t make it any less heinous. If anything, it makes it WORSE.
Anyone that still thinks the US is a democracy is immediately suspect in my book.
DEMOCRACY!