{"id":1486124,"date":"2022-05-20T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486124"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:31:02","slug":"parental-advisory-court-rules-gender-queer-novel-too-sexually-explicit-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parental-advisory-court-rules-gender-queer-novel-too-sexually-explicit-for-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Advisory: Court Rules \u2018Gender Queer\u2019 Novel Too Sexually Explicit for Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparental-advisory-court-rules-gender-queer-novel-too-sexually-explicit-for-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Two sexually explicit novels may soon be removed from Virginia public school libraries thanks to a circuit court decision that called the books &#8220;obscene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge Pamela Baskervill ruled Wednesday that <em>Gender Queer: A Memoir <\/em>and <em>A Court of Mist and Fury<\/em> are too &#8220;obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors,&#8221; ABC 7 News <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/virginia-judge-books-obscene-banned-kids-school-district-ban-library-gender-queer-court-mist-fury-sexual-content-barnes-noble-fairfax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Virginia public schools may soon have to remove the novels and similarly graphic books from library shelves. The books&#8217; publishers have three weeks to contest the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Beach School Board voted prior to the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/news\/education\/vp-nw-books-virginia-beach-20220516-rjy4vayorffojc57klxtyuf5qm-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remove<\/a> <em>Gender Queer<\/em> from libraries, after a district working group deemed it &#8220;pervasively vulgar.&#8221; Written by &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; author Maia Kobabe, <em>Gender Queer<\/em> is a graphic novel focused on the author&#8217;s sexual experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The book contains illustrations of a male character performing oral sex on a dildo affixed to Kobabe with a harness and recounts Kobabe&#8217;s trip to a pornography production company. <em>A Court of Mist and Fury<\/em> contains several graphic sexual scenes, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> found.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia state delegate Tim Anderson (R.) in April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/news\/vp-nw-virginia-beach-obscene-20220519-n4ufubihpbhtfoubkkfqxo7zf4-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petitioned<\/a> the court to pull the books from schools on behalf of Tommy Altman, a congressional candidate running against Rep. Elaine Luria (D., Va.). Altman and Anderson on Wednesday filed a separate motion to the court, seeking to extend the ruling to all Virginia libraries and booksellers. If a judge rules in their favor, public libraries and bookstores will be barred from sharing or selling the books to minors without parental permission.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say that banning books from school libraries violates the First Amendment. But Anderson insists the court order doesn&#8217;t explicitly ban the books but helps parents control their children&#8217;s access to obscene content, according to ABC 7.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time <em>Gender Queer <\/em>has caused a dustup in Virginia schools. Fairfax County Public Schools in October pulled the book from libraries but reversed its decision a month later. Loudoun County Public Schools removed <em>Gender Queer <\/em>from libraries after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loudoun-county-to-remove-gender-identity-book-with-graphic-illustrations-from-school-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">determining<\/a> the book &#8220;ran counter to what is appropriate in school.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sexually explicit novels may soon be removed from Virginia public school libraries thanks to a circuit court decision that called the books &#8220;obscene.&#8221; Judge Pamela Baskervill ruled Wednesday that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}