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Over the last four years, LGBTQ+ people—especially transgender people—have been attacked from every angle: bans on healthcare, restrictions on bathrooms, even attempts to restrict driver’s license gender markers. But one of the earliest and most revealing features of this backlash was the push to strip books about queer and trans lives from classrooms and libraries. At first, these bans cloaked themselves in neutrality, prohibiting vague “gender and sexuality” discussions—rules that always seemed to allow depictions of straight marriage while quietly targeting anything queer. Now, the mask is off. The Alabama Public Library Service has issued a proposal that would force libraries to pull any “positive depictions” of transgender people from general shelves and relegate them to the adult section.
Source: https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-l ... -ban-books