"These books are there to give our kids the language that they need to express how they are already feeling, and that's it," said one LGBTQ+ rights advocate."And if we take those books away from their libraries, then we're saying...that they are alone in those schools.
Upon receiving a written request to remove a book, a school district would have 30 days to eliminate all copies of the material from circulation.—the law that deputizes any citizen and entitles them to a financial reward if they successfully sue someone for aiding a pregnant person in obtaining abortion care—parents will be able to collect $10,000 per day for as long as the book in question remains in library., if the district refuses to remove the book and the case proceeds to court.
"These books are not there for anything else other than to affirm and show the kids their love for who they are, and that there are other people out there like them, that they are not alone."McAlester News-Capital he believes that bill has the potential to make it to the governor's desk in light of the Republican Party's pursuit of similar legislation in other states, including at least one proposal that's been passed into law limiting how teachers can discuss race and gender.
"I think it's just trying to feed into the fearmongering that it looks like the GOP really is going for here," RosecrantsStandridge said books he has seen in school libraries that could be targeted by the bill includeA Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
The tragedy in the article is how politicians across the US are now using Texas Senate Bill 8 template to target every institution and right they don't agree with. It's a loophole around the electorate. Fascism at work. Democracy as we know it is ending. SO SAD
Not a great idea when you are currently leading the states league for killing grandmas now, is it?