The practice of breast binding can have catastrophic physical effects. Frankly, it is horrifying. Books that promote this via gender ideology do not belong in the children's or teens' sections of the library. The ALA's "Library Bill of Rights" states in part, "A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views."The longer I’ve been involved with the movement to protect girls and women, the more I see that much (most) of it is really a thinly veiled push to abolish child safeguarding. Girls being forced to undress in front of boys, children being taken from their parents for not… pic.twitter.com/g0gXzKb8nN
— Carilyn Johnson (@CarilynJohnson) October 9, 2025
No one is denying children the ability to use a library. But most people can agree that using taxpayer dollars to promote a harmful agenda to children is wrong. The next time an extremist activist tells you that it's about the First Amendment, or free speech, show them this picture. The real agenda is anti-human. It clothes itself in the flag and free speech, but it desires to end us as sexed individuals. It is an attack that goes to the deepest level of our biological reality and seeks to destroy it by mental and physical manipulation. It is deeply evil.
This agenda does not belong in the children's sections of libraries. Dozens of books in our library system promote to children that one can change one's sex. Colorful illustrations with smiling people are meant to encourage children to accept ideas that oppose reality itself. Don't fall for it.
Breast binding permanently damages the bodies of women and girls. It is not a “piece of clothing.” The damage is not reversible.
— Maia Poet🦎 (@thepeacepoet99) October 9, 2025
Why is everyone on BOTH sides so committed to downplaying the brutal effects of breast binding? https://t.co/vJacJXySLW pic.twitter.com/5fk0Sk1vWP