Attempted book bans surged in 2022 as leaders target sexual content and critical race theory: Report

Attempts to restrict access to certain books increased in 2022, particularly those featuring LGBT and racial themes. This comes as lawmakers across the country have made efforts to prevent young children from being exposed to graphic sexual content and critical race theory in schools.

The number of items that were subject to restrictions almost doubled from 2021, according to a recent American Library Association state. In 2022, there were 1, 269 calls for resource censorship, up from just 729 calls the year before, according to the report. Many of the calls went against several different names.

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Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at ALA, asserted that those who criticize these guides and sources are misintentional.

She stated that” their goal is to stifle the voices of those who have historically been left out of our country’s conversations, such as members of the LGBTQIA + community or people of color.”

According to Caldwell-Stone,” increasingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from coordinated censorship groups that target national library board meetings to impose removal of a long list of books they share on public media.”

2, 571 different books and resources were reportedly challenged in 2021, which is 38 % more than the 1, 858 specific titles, according to ALA.

According to the company,” the vast majority were written by or about people of color and members of the LGBTQIA + place.”

As courses with physical, cultural, and LGBT elements are increasingly being found in schools and libraries across the nation, where young children have access to and are exposed to them, many books have recently come under scrutiny.

The most outlawed and contested guide of 2021 was Gender Queer in particular. Examples of explicit sexual activity can be found in the visual book and narrative. In every school in the US, it can be found.

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Lately, Gov. According to Ron DeSantis'( R – FL ) office, the book has been discovered in several schools in Florida counties along with two other books, It’s Perfectly Normal and Let’ Talk About It.

It’s Perfectly Normal is a children’s book about “changing Bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health,” which is intended for ages 10 and up. Meanwhile, Let’s Talk About It is a graphic novel branded as “the teen’s guide to sex, relationships, and being a human.”