Nashville-area school district votes to remove transgender book after fiery board meeting

AND Nashville-area school district voted this week to remove a transgender children’s book from its school libraries after questions were raised about the book’s content at a board meeting last month.

During the public comment section of the Dec. 10 Murfreesboro City School Board meeting, the pastor and activist John K. Amanchukwu called out the district for having the “It Feels Good to Be Yourself” picture book on the shelves at Bradley Academy, an elementary school serving students in pre-K through 6th grade in the district.

The book introduces the concept of gender identity to readers as young as four, according to its description.

“Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are neither, neither, or somewhere in between,” he writes.

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The book tells the story of “Ruthie,” a transgender girl, and introduces terms like “cisgender” and “nonbinary” to explain different gender identities to younger readers.

After Amanchukwu began reading from the book, board chairman Butch Campbell objected to the pastor for bringing the book to the meeting, saying it was against the rules that agenda items are only brought up during the public comment section.

Pastor continued reading from inside the book, calling the book’s message about the existence of more than two sexes a “lie” and citing the Book of Genesis.

After about two minutes of the committee trying to get Amanchukwu to stop speaking, they forced the meeting to adjourn.

At the school board meeting on January 14 meeting this weekthe board announced that the transgender-themed book was reviewed by a committee of staff and parents, who recommended the book’s removal.

One board member said the book had been on the shelves since 2022 and had never been checked.

Before they took the vote, Vice President Amanda Moore accused Amanchukwu of putting on a “show” to draw the district’s attention to the book.

Amanchukwu is a Turning Point USA contributor and travels around the country to various school board meetings to bring attention to graphic books in school libraries.

“This person advertised his visit to us weeks before he came. He never contacted the school, he never contacted central office and he never contacted this board, even though he came and yelled at us about this dangerous book we have on the shelf,” vice president Amanda Moore said before the board voted to remove the book from the library’s shelves.

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Amanchukwu responded to the board’s decision and comments in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“If my commitment to protect children from content that psychologically rapes them is a ‘show’… I pray that this ‘show’ becomes bigger for the benefit of the least of them, in 2025,” Amanchukwu said.

He quoted Proverbs 22:6 which says, “Raise a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

“We are called to train children, not mess them up,” his testimony continued. “I applaud the board members for using common sense in managing student pedagogy in Murfreesboro City Schools.”

A Minnesota school district removed a transgender book from its elementary school library this month after facing pressure from a concerned parent.

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Rochester Public Schools said it has pulled the 2022 book “The Rainbow Parade” by Emily Neilson. primary school media center last month after a Franklin Elementary School parent raised concerns about the book’s nudity illustrations.