{"id":2990,"date":"2024-11-08T18:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2024-11-08T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:46:52","slug":"florida-removed-over-4500-lgbt-sexually-explicit-books-from-schools-last-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Florida removed over 4,500 LGBT, sexually explicit books from schools last year: report<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/author\/calvin-freiburger\/\" rel=\"\">Calvin Freiburger<\/a><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE, Florida (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\" rel=\"\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 A left-wing \u201cfree speech\u201d group once again labeled Florida the top state in the nation for \u201cbook banning\u201d in a report the mainstream media is highlighting in hopes that it will reflect badly on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis but which actually illustrates the Sunshine State\u2019s progress in removing age-inappropriate material from public schools.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Tallahassee Democrat<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/11\/01\/desantis-florida-most-book-bans-again-report-says\/75946885007\/\" rel=\"\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that, according to PEN America, more than 4,500 total books (and 4,231 individual titles) were removed from Florida public schools in the 2023-24 school year, sharply up from 1,406 the year before. That accounts for almost half of the 10,000 total removals nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-nine percent of the books included \u201cLGBTQ\u201d characters and 57 percent had \u201csex or sex-related content,\u201d according to the report. (Forty-four percent \u201cincluded characters of color,\u201d it added, but does not back up the implication that race was a motivating factor for removal.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis crisis is tragic for young people hungry to understand the world they live in and see their identities and experiences reflected in books,\u201d PEN America Freedom to Read director Kasey Meehan said. \u201cWhat students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives, whether critical thinking, empathy across difference, personal well-being, or long-term success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis spokesman Bryan Griffin responded that the \u201cconcept that not everything is appropriate to be in a school is still an unacceptable concept to FL print media &amp; Democrats. They\u2019re still trying to equate removing porn from the classroom with a \u2018book ban.\u2019 Good thing they\u2019ve rendered themselves irrelevant in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dailynewsfromaolf.substack.com\/p\/florida-removed-over-4500-lgbt-sexually?utm\">https:\/\/dailynewsfromaolf.substack.com\/p\/florida-removed-over-4500-lgbt-sexually?utm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Calvin Freiburger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}