Friday, April 4, 2025

It's All Intentional

From: CCL

 By Gretchen Garrity

 

Chris Barrett, who previously spoke about transgender ideology at a Christian County Library Board meeting, testified in the Missouri Legislature on behalf of a father of a transgender child. He urged support for the SAFE Act's continuance.

The Christian County Library is chock full of books advocating for this ideology. Here are some of the books in our library branches. The Pronoun Book; I Am Not a Girl; My Fade is Fresh; Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster; Julian is a Mermaid; Julian at the Wedding; When Aidan Became a Brother; I Am Jazz; It Feels Good to be Yourself; The Every Body Book; Identity: A Story of Transitioning; Beyond the Gender Binary; I Was Born for This; The Queen's English; Queer and Fearless; The New Queer Conscience; Pink, Blue, and You; Who are You?; Sex Plus, and many more. Search HERE for yourself.

But books are only the beginning. 

The people in our community who fight so very hard to make sure children have access to sexually explicit and age-inappropriate materials don't want you to know about the apps that libraries make available to children. You can read about OverDrive HERE (three articles at the link).

And it's not just apps. On the CCL Research page are numerous links that take you to EBSCO-derived information sites. These websites allow minors with a library card to access online books and materials that again, are wholly inappropriate.

 A simple search at the EBSCO link using the word "transgender" brings up titles like Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices; The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook : Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression; Gender Fulfilled: Being Transgender; The Beginner's Guide to Being a Trans Ally; Reflections: Transgender at 7, Out at 84; Phoenix Goes to School: A Story to Support Transgender and Gender Diverse Children; Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth; Yes, You are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-loathing to Self-love, and pages more.

From: CCL Research page

 Also linked on the CCL Research page, the Digital Public Library of America doesn't even require a library card to access books. Here is a blog post from  Micah May, Director of Ebook Services, Digital Public Library of America:

"Last year, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), together with Lyrasis, launched The Banned Book Club in direct response to the banned book crisis facing readers across the country. Its mission is simple: to ensure all readers have access to the books they want to read. Initially, we used GPS-based geo-targeting to grant access to free, digital copies of banned books in the specific communities where those books had been removed from libraries.

As book bans have continued to intensify, however, we realized it wasn’t enough to just allow access in certain regions, or to only certain communities. So we decided to make a change. The Banned Book Club has now made e-versions of banned books available to all readers across the country, totally free of charge, regardless of whether they currently live in an area impacted by book bans or not.

Readers can now freely access over 1,300 titles that have been forcibly removed from schools and libraries through the Palace Marketplace e-reader app. And it’s really easy to do: here’s how."

From: DPLA

What about mobile hotspots? The Christian County Library has 48 mobile hotspot devices that can be checked out by library cardholders. The library's policy handbook (p. 20, Internet Access) states, "While the Library network (except service available through hotspots) is filtered to comply with all applicable state and federal laws and Library policies, the Library has no control over what users choose to access." [emphasis added]

Do these hotspots have any filters on them? Are children able to obtain them? If they have no filters and are obtainable by any child with an all-access library card then nothing is off limits to your child. Would poor and at-risk youth be especially susceptible to utilizing these hotspots?.

Listen to de-transition activist Chloe Cole: 

 The image at the top of the page is of the Christian County Library Foundation's Events page. Children are pictured. Does the CCLF approve that children in our community are intentionally exposed to materials that may harm their developing emotional and intellectual understanding, or that tax-paying parents have no say in what their child is exposed to in a public library or through its internet presence?

No one has called for censoring or banning books. Citizens are saying that sexually explicit and age-inappropriate materials be placed where the adults in their lives can make the decision whether or not to expose their children to them.

No one has the right to expose other people's children to books/materials like Gender Queer, or Sex Plus, or I Am Jazz. No librarian or trustee or publisher or school or other parent or organization has that right. Parents have the right and responsibility to determine for their own children what they can or cannot access. Unfortunately, local groups like U-turn in Education also provide links to online "resources" for students that include digital access to books from several online library websites.

Pushing these materials on children almost has a proselytizing religious fervor to it. Let the reader understand.

From: X

Hundreds of age-inappropriate books planted throughout the teen and children's sections of the library is not a coincidence. Online access to inappropriate materials is also not a coincidence. It is not a First Amendment right for children. It is not a "Right to Read." 

It is intentional exposure and indoctrination. It is vile. And when the best in our community do nothing, whether one is a pastor, a government official, a prominent business person, a teacher, or an average joe, they too will ultimately bear the responsibility for the harm that occurs to children.

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