NBC 5 Investigates sent out public records requests to 600 school districts and libraries. Here’s which books are being challenged and which single book is the most challenged by far.
NBC 5 Investigates sent out public records requests to 600 school districts and libraries. Here's which books are being challenged and which single book is the most challenged by far.Libraries, normally regarded as havens for learning, have increasingly become targets of protest and threats, a months-investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered.
Since July, there have been at least 24 bomb threats called into Chicago-area libraries, half of which happened on the same day that Illinois Secretary of Stateto address questions about Illinois’ new law, which will prohibit public libraries from banning or restricting access to materials based on one’s personal or political objections. When the law takes effect in January, libraries that do so could lose state grant funding.
By far the most challenged book is “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” whose author said the book was a way to explain to family members and friends what it’s like to be non-binary or asexual. The book does contain graphic illustrations of sex acts, which has led to protests and challenges by parents’ rights groups that have argued it is obscene and pornographic.
She said the increase in challenges began in 2021 and have accelerated “in ways that we’d never seen before. We used to get one or two reports a week, and we were starting to get four or five reports a day.”
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