Republican State Senator Rob Standridge of Oklahoma has introduced a bill that would give individual parents the power to demand the removal of any book from school shelves that they believe contains LGBTQ content. The bill, SB 1142, states that schools should be banned from carrying texts that cover “the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a sexual nature.” According to the bill, school staff would be required to remove any such book within 30 days of a parent’s request. If the staff doesn’t comply, they will be terminated. Not only that but they’ll be blocked from being hired at any other public school for two years. The bill would also entitle parents who have requested the removal of a book to seek damages in the amount of a minimum of $10,000 per day for each day the book remains on the shelves. Standridge has named specific books that concern him, including “Trans Teen Survival Guide” and “A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns,” calling them “overly sexualized.”
Oklahoma Allows Parents To Ban LGBTQ+ Books From School Libraries
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