During a board meeting on Thursday, a mother from North Carolina read sexual gay passages from a book that was made available to seventh-graders in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board.
“‘This Book is Gay’ by Juno Dawson was found in a seventh grade classroom at Collingswood Middle School. It was also on the ELA recommended reading list for seventh graders at Jay M. Robinson,” began local mother Christy Wade.
She then read a passage from the chapter headed “The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex” in full.
“Perhaps the most important skill you will master as a gay or bi man is a timeless classic: the hand job. Good news is you can practice it on yourself. The bad news is each guy has become very used to his own way of getting himself off,” Wade read.
“Learning how to find a partner’s personal style can take ages. But it can be very rewarding when you do. Something they don’t teach you in school is that in order to be able to come at all, you or your partner may need to finish off with a ‘handy,'” Wade continued. “A lot of people find it hard to come through other types of sex. That is fine and certainly not something you have to apologize for.”
Juno Dawson faced criticism in 2015 upon publication of the book. Dawson announced a transgender identity shortly after the controversy and later told Attitude Magazine: “I think there are a lot of gay men out there who are gay men as a consolation prize because they couldn’t be women. That was certainly true of me.”
Wade continued by reading more clear advice on how to win a lover over. Wade reads the information available to seventh graders while at least one participant in the group covers his ears.
Wade is hardly the only parent to object to children having access to Dawson’s book. The Frontiersman stated at the time that in 2015, a mother in Wasilla, Alaska, complained to her neighborhood library after her 10-year-old son took the enticing rainbow-colored book off the children’s nonfiction shelf.
Not only that, but there are other explicit books that have ended up in school libraries.
Parents and organizations from all across the nation are protesting the sexual content that their children are exposed to, such as those who recently opposed to the book Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe being on school shelves in Maine and Rhode Island.
Christopher Rufo proposed a straightforward fix for problems like this.