The Rockingham County School Board on Monday voted to “temporarily remove” 57 books from school libraries. The Daily News-Record newspaper reported Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer”, Juno Dawson’s “This Book is Gay” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” are three of the books that school board members by a 4-1 margin voted to remove.

Board members by the same margin also approved updated guidelines for transgender and nonbinary students the Virginia Department of Education announced last July.

Equality Virginia Executive Director Narissa Rahaman has said these guidelines for which Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin asked “single out transgender and nonbinary youth in our schools.” The post Rockingham County School Board removes 57 books from library shelves appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News.

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