A Nashville-area college district voted this week to take away a transgender ebook for kids from its college libraries after questions have been raised concerning the ebook’s content material eventually month’s board assembly.
During the general public remark part on the December 10 Murfreesboro City School Board assembly, pastor and activist John Ok. Amanchukwu known as out the district for having the image ebook, “It Feels Good to Be Yourself,” on the cabinets at Bradley Academy, an elementary college serving pre-Ok by sixth grade college students within the district.
The ebook introduces the idea of gender identification to readers as younger as 4, in response to its description.
“Some individuals are boys. Some individuals are women. Some individuals are each, neither, or someplace in between,” it says.
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The ebook tells the story of “Ruthie,” a transgender lady, and introduces phrases like “cisgender” and “nonbinary” to clarify totally different gender identities to youthful readers.
After Amanchukwu began to learn from the ebook, board chair Butch Campbell objected to the pastor citing the ebook on the assembly, saying he was going towards the foundations of solely citing agenda objects throughout the public remark part.
The pastor continued to learn from contained in the ebook, calling the ebook’s message about there being greater than two genders “a lie” and citing the Book of Genesis.
After about two minutes of the board making an attempt to get Amanchukwu to cease talking, they compelled the assembly right into a recess.

North Carolina Pastor John Amanchukwu beforehand talking at a Wake County School Board assembly. (Wake County School Board/Screenshot)
At the January 14 college board assembly this week, the board introduced the transgender-themed ebook had been reviewed by a committee of employees and oldsters, who advisable eradicating the ebook.
One board member mentioned the ebook had been on the cabinets since 2022 and had by no means been checked out.
Before they performed a vote, vice-chair Amanda Moore accused Amanchukwu of conducting a “present” to convey the ebook to the district’s consideration.
Amanchukwu is a contributor for Turning Point USA and travels across the nation to totally different college board conferences to attract consideration to express books in class libraries.
“This individual had marketed his go to to us for weeks earlier than he got here. Never contacted the varsity, by no means contacted central workplace and by no means contacted this board, despite the fact that he got here and yelled at us about this harmful ebook we had on the shelf,” vice chair Amanda Moore mentioned earlier than the board voted to take away the ebook from library cabinets.
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A baby reads a ebook on the City of Santa Clarita Public Library Valencia department in Santa Clarita, California, U.S., on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Amanchukwu responded to the board’s determination and feedback in an announcement to Fox News Digital.
“If my dedication to defending youngsters from content material that mentally rapes them is a ‘present’….I pray that this ‘present’ will get greater for the sake of the least of those, in 2025,” Amanchukwu mentioned.
He quoted Proverbs 22:6, which says, “Train up a baby in the way in which he ought to go, and when he’s previous, he won’t depart from it.”
“We are known as to coach youngsters up, not mess them up,” his assertion continued. “I salute the board members for utilizing widespread sense in governing the pedagogy of scholars in Murfreesboro City Schools.”
This month, a faculty district in Minnesota eliminated a transgender ebook from an elementary college library after dealing with stress from a involved father or mother.
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Rochester Public Schools mentioned it pulled the 2022 ebook, “The Rainbow Parade” by Emily Neilson, from its elementary college media middle final month after a Franklin Elementary School father or mother raised issues about nude illustrations within the ebook.