Thu Jan 20, 2022 – 3:04 pm ESTThu Jan 20, 2022 – 3:09 pm EST
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) –A Virginia school board has decided to remove a sexually explicit book following parents’ complaints.
A Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) committee voted unanimously last week to ban Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. The meeting was held after Superintendent Scott Ziegler’s initial decision to ban the book was repealed.
Ziegler called a review of the offending volume after receiving complaints from parents over the book’s content, which includes depictions of masturbation, nudity, and sex toys. A committee designated to review the book recommended, with a split vote, that the book stay in school libraries, according to LCPS public information officer Wayde Byard.
Byard said that Ziegler made the decision to remove the book against the recommendation of the committee. When an appeal was made against Ziegler’s decision, a committee upheld it with a 3-0 vote.
Ziegler, who was in the hot seat last year over a gender-confused male student’s sexual assault of one girl, and the rape of another, in his school district, issued a statement to the Washington Post about his decision to get rid
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