Nashville-area school district votes to remove children's transgender book after fiery board meeting

A Nashville-area schoolhouse territory voted this week to region a transgender publication for children from its schoolhouse libraries aft questions were raised astir the book's contented astatine past month's committee meeting.

During the nationalist remark conception astatine the December 10 Murfreesboro City School Board meeting, pastor and activistic John K. Amanchukwu called retired the territory for having the representation book, "It Feels Good to Be Yourself," connected the shelves astatine Bradley Academy, an simple schoolhouse serving pre-K done 6th people students successful the district.

The publication introduces the conception of sex individuality to readers arsenic young arsenic four, according to its description. 

"Some radical are boys. Some radical are girls. Some radical are both, neither, oregon determination successful between," it says.

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A Tennessee schoolhouse territory voted Tuesday to region a transgender children's publication from its room shelves. (Getty Images)

The publication tells the communicative of "Ruthie," a transgender girl, and introduces presumption similar "cisgender" and "nonbinary" to explicate antithetic sex identities to younger readers.

After Amanchukwu started to work from the book, committee seat Butch Campbell objected to the pastor bringing up the publication astatine the meeting, saying helium was going against the rules of lone bringing up docket items during the nationalist remark section.

The pastor continued to read from wrong the book, calling the book's connection astir determination being much than 2 genders "a lie" and citing the Book of Genesis.

After astir 2 minutes of the committee attempting to get Amanchukwu to halt speaking, they forced the gathering into a recess.

North Carolina Pastor John Amanchukwu antecedently speaking astatine a Wake County School Board meeting.  (Wake County School Board/Screenshot)

At the January 14 schoolhouse committee meeting this week, the committee announced the transgender-themed publication had been reviewed by a committee of unit and parents, who recommended removing the book. 

One committee subordinate said the publication had been connected the shelves since 2022 and had ne'er been checked out.

Before they conducted a vote, vice-chair Amanda Moore accused Amanchukwu of conducting a "show" to bring the publication to the district's attention.

Amanchukwu is simply a contributor for Turning Point USA and travels astir the state to antithetic schoolhouse committee meetings to gully attraction to explicit books successful schoolhouse libraries.

"This idiosyncratic had advertised his sojourn to america for weeks earlier helium came. Never contacted the school, ne'er contacted cardinal bureau and ne'er contacted this board, adjacent though helium came and yelled astatine america astir this unsafe publication we had connected the shelf," vice seat Amanda Moore said earlier the committee voted to region the publication from room shelves.

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A kid reads a publication astatine the City of Santa Clarita Public Library Valencia subdivision successful Santa Clarita, California, U.S., connected Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Amanchukwu responded to the board's determination and comments successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"If my committedness to protecting children from contented that mentally rapes them is simply a 'show'....I  commune that this ‘show’ gets bigger for the involvement of the slightest of these, successful 2025," Amanchukwu said.

He quoted Proverbs 22:6, which says, "Train up a kid successful the mode helium should go, and erstwhile helium is old, helium volition not depart from it."

"We are called to bid children up, not messiness them up," his connection continued. "I salute the committee members for utilizing communal consciousness successful governing the pedagogy of students successful Murfreesboro City Schools." 

This month, a schoolhouse territory successful Minnesota removed a transgender publication from an simple schoolhouse room aft facing unit from a acrophobic parent.

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Rochester Public Schools said it pulled the 2022 book, "The Rainbow Parade" by Emily Neilson, from its elementary school media halfway past period aft a Franklin Elementary School genitor raised concerns astir nude illustrations successful the book.