A list of 596 books banned from use at the Department of Defense’s military schools under President Donald Trump’s administration was recently released by a U.S. district court. The list includes numerous books on graphic LGBTQ topics, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics, and other left-wing topics.
According to The Daily Caller, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia released a list on July 11 of the books the Pentagon has banned from its military schools. The list was released as part of the lawsuit brought against the Department of Defense Education Activity by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Trump administration’s Department of Defense was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union, military students, and the family members of military students in April following multiple book bans and curriculum changes implemented by the administration to remove DEI policies and curriculum from the military.
“Our DoDEA schools are not playgrounds for left-wing activists pushing race-baiting, gender confusion, and anti-American propaganda,” DOD Watch Executive Director Nicole Kiprilov said in a statement to The Daily Caller. “This isn’t about banning ideas; it’s about stopping the deliberate indoctrination of military children with a radical ideology that directly contradicts the values that should be shaping our children’s growth and development.”
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“The Trump administration is fighting for military families by making sure DoDEA schools reflect the values of service, sacrifice, and country, and not the woke agenda of activist bureaucrats,” Kiprilov added.
The Daily Caller reported that a significant number of the books included in the list feature sexual LGBTQ themes aimed at minors, while other books on the list feature DEI and other left-wing topics.
One of the books on the list is a children’s book titled “My Dad Thinks I’m a Boy?!: A Trans Positive Children’s Book.” According to a description on Amazon’s website, “This powerful and uplifting book for children aged 6 – 9 and their families humorously portrays a situation that is often too common, where a trans child is forced to negotiate between their true self and their parents’ love.”
Another book on the list is titled “Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School.” A description of the book claims that it explains “how the ‘specter of the fag’ becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the ‘fag discourse’ is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.”
Other books included as part of the Pentagon’s ban include “Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU, “ABC’s of LGBT+,” “Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero,” and “Baby Drag Queen.”
