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Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will remove the controversial book “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” written by Maia Kobabe, from school library shelves, a spokesman announced Friday. The school district in nearby Fairfax County has stood by the book, saying that it is not obscene and does not contain pedophilia, yet Loudoun Superintendent Scott Zielger – who has faced pressure from parents and from incoming Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on other issues – decided to remove the book, calling it inappropriate for school.
“The pictorial depictions in this book ran counter to what is appropriate in school,” Ziegler wrote in a statement to The Washington Post. “I read every book that is submitted for my review in its entirety. I am not generally in favor of removing books from the library.”
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Ziegler requested a review of the book due to questions about its content, spokesman Wayde Byard told the Post. A “committee recommended (on a split vote) to retain the book in the high school library collection [but] the superintendent decided to remove the book from circulation.” The decision was appealed, and the school board appeal committee met Thursday evening, voting 3-0 to uphold the removal.
Pornographic books that mother Stacy Langton objected to.
The move comes about two months after Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) announced that it had restored “Gender Queer,” along with Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” to libraries after two committees reviewed them and concluded that the books did not include pedophilia or obscene content.
The committee ruled that “Gender Queer” – which includes photos of sexual acts between a boy and a man – depicts “difficulties nonbinary and asexual individuals may face.” The committee concluded that “the book neither depicts nor describes pedophilia.” The committee also claimed that…
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