Her safe haven is now a battleground in an unprecedented effort by parents and conservative politicians in Texas to ban books dealing with race, sexuality and gender from schools, an NBC News investigation has found. You should be able to see yourself reflected on the page.” “And I’m sure it’s really important to other queer kids. “As I’ve struggled with my own identity as a queer person, it’s been really, really important to me that I have access to these books,” said the girl, whom NBC News is not naming to avoid revealing her sexuality. Some titles were removed after parents formally complained, but others were quietly banned by the district without official reviews. Also banished: “The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Lawn Boy” - all coming-of-age stories that prominently feature LGBTQ characters and passages about sex. Gone: “Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts),” a book she’d read last year about a gay teenager who isn’t shy about discussing his adventurous sex life. But books, including one of her recent favorites, have been vanishing from the shelves of Katy Independent School District libraries the past few months.
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