Parents challenged books in school libraries and classrooms in record numbers for the second straight year, with one highly contentious work on LGBTQ identity bearing the brunt of conservatives’ wrath.
“State of America’s Libraries Report,” released Monday, found the most-cited reasons for the efforts last year were sexually explicit material, profanity and LGBTQ gender identity content.found the number of reported challenges to books nearly doubled from the previous record of 729 in 2021 to 1,269 last year — and the number of challenges to unique titles rose 38%, from 1,858 to 2,571 over the same period.
“The content of these books is perverse, degrading, and highly inappropriate,” Ms. Few told The Washington Times. “Parents have had enough of the ‘woke’ agenda working to indoctrinate their children.” Maia Kobabe’s comic book-style memoir “Gender Queer,” an account of the author’s coming out as nonbinary and queer, led the’s list of most-challenged books for the second year in a row in 2022. The group’s report found that parental rights groups last year made 151 efforts to remove the graphic novel — which includes brightly colored illustrations of minors engaging in gay sexual activity — from library shelves.
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