On Wednesday (November 11), McMaster (R) called for Maia Kobabe’s award-winning book Gender Queer: A Memoir to be recalled from shelves for its “obscene and pornographic” content.
In a letter addressed to the South California Department of Education and Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman, McMaster petitioned for the book to be removed due to its “depictions”. “For sexually explicit materials of this nature to have ever been introduced or allowed in South Carolina’s schools, it is obvious that there is or was either a lack of, or a breakdown in, any existing oversight processes or the absence of appropriate screening standards,” McMaster wrote.