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Children’s Books at Rogers Public Library Contain Pro-LGBT Material, Sexual Content
The Rogers Public Library’s catalog includes children’s books that are overtly pro-LGBT and contain sexual content.
Picture books and board books like ‘Twas the Night Before PRIDE, What Are Your Words?, and Bye Bye Binary promote transgender ideology to preschoolers and young children.
The library’s online catalog indicates that these books are available among other children’s picture books at the Rogers Public Library.
The children’s section also hosts the book Sex Is A Funny Word by Cory Silverberg. The library describes Sex Is A Funny Word as, “A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the ‘facts of life’ or ‘the birds and the bees,’ Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy. . . . Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines ‘sex talk’ for the twenty-first century.”
The library catalog also includes titles such as Making A Baby — a book written with help from LGBT leaders that “covers sex, sperm and egg donation, IUI, IVF, surrogacy and adoption” — and When Aidan Became A Brother — a book about a little girl who decides to become a boy.
These books are intended for children as young as five years old.
Sex education material and pro-LGBT picture books don’t belong on the same shelves as Goodnight Moon. Families should be able to take their children to the library without worrying about what their kids might accidentally find in the children’s section.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.
Parents have found graphic sexual material and pro-LGBT books in children’s sections at public libraries across Arkansas.
So what can families do if they find pro-LGBT children’s books in their libraries?
Communities can take steps to remove objectionable material from their local libraries.
Library boards and librarians have leeway to establish selection criteria and make decisions about the kinds of material available on the library’s shelves.
Library patrons generally can use a Material Reconsideration Form to ask libraries to remove inappropriate material.
And voters can call on their elected officials to enact laws protecting children from objectionable material in public libraries.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
Judge Rules Expert Can Testify in Favor of SAFE Act
On Tuesday U.S. District Judge James Moody ruled that his court would accept expert testimony from professor Mark Regnerus, Ph. D., as part of the lawsuit over Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.
The state legislature passed the SAFE Act last year. The law protects children in Arkansas from sex-reassignment procedures and hormones. Unfortunately, it has been tied up in federal court for the past 14 months.
Dr. Regnerus is a published author and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has studied and written extensively about sexual orientation and the science of transgender medicine.
Dr. Regnerus is critical of the ways in which doctors today are pressured to help children with gender dysphoria “transition” from one sex to the other.
The plaintiffs who are suing to overturn the SAFE Act asked Judge Moody to exclude expert testimony from Dr. Regnerus. However, on Tuesday Judge Moody ruled that Dr. Regnerus could offer expert testimony.
In a declaration he filed in the SAFE Act lawsuit last year, Dr. Regnerus made several key points regarding minors with gender dysphoria, including the following:
- The science surrounding gender identity remain in flux.
- The demographics of transgender youth is changing in ways that scientists do not yet understand.
- Randomized clinical trials do not support the adolescent gender transition processes that many doctors in America use.
Dr. Regnerus goes on to point out that the number of children who identify as transgender has inexplicably skyrocketed in Western countries over the past 20 years, and that this sudden rise is particularly pronounced among biological girls.
Dr. Regnerus’ words from last year are almost prescient given how the U.K.’s National Health Services recently closed its Tavistock gender clinic that for many years gave puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.
The facility today faces the possibility of lawsuits from upwards of 1,000 families whose children were subjected to sex-reassignment despite an obvious lack of scientific evidence in favor of the procedures and inadequate mental health screenings for children with gender dysphoria.
The U.K. is not the only European country rethinking how it treats children who disagree with their biological sex.
Last year Karolinska Hospital in Sweden, one of the world’s most renowned medical establishments, decided to stop prescribing puberty-blockers to minors.
The hospital noted that giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children “should be regarded as experimental.”
Finland’s Council for Choices in Health Care has reached the same conclusion, writing, “In light of available evidence, gender reassignment of minors is an experimental practice.”
In July the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a warning label to puberty blockers after six girls developed tumor-like masses in the brain, which caused vision problems.
The FDA never has approved puberty blockers for purposes of gender transition. Doctors are giving these drugs to children off-label.
All of this underscores why the Arkansas Legislature was right to pass the SAFE Act in 2021.
Evidence is mounting that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change procedures are dangerous for children.
With that in mind, our federal court system ultimately should uphold the SAFE Act and let Arkansas protect these children from life-altering procedures.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.