A Nashville-area school district voted this week to remove a transgender book for children from its school library after questioning the book's content at a board meeting last month.
During the public comment portion of the Dec. 10 Murfreesboro City School Board meeting, pastor and activist John K. Amanchukwu called on the district to On the bookshelf is the picture book "It Feels Good to Be Yourself." The school serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in the district.
According to the book, the book introduces readers as young as four to the concept of gender identity.
"Some are boys. Some are girls. Some are both, neither, or somewhere in between," it said.
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A Tennessee school district voted Tuesday to remove a transgender children's book from library shelves. (Getty Images)
The book tells the story of a transgender girl named "Ruth" and introduces terms like "cisgender" and "non-binary" to explain different gender identities to young readers.
After Amanchukwu began reading from the book, board president Butch Campbell objected to the pastor bringing the book up at the meeting, saying he violated rules that only bring up agenda items during the public comment portion.
The pastor continued to read from the book, calling its information about the existence of more than two genders a "lie" and citing the book of Genesis.
The board adjourned the meeting after they tried to get Amanchukwu to stop speaking for about two minutes.
North Carolina Pastor John Amanchukwu previously spoke at a Wake County School Board meeting. (Wake County Department of Education/Screenshot)
At this week's school board meeting on January 14, the board announced that the transgender-themed book had been reviewed by a committee of staff and parents, who recommended that the book be removed.
A board member said the book has been on the shelves since 2022 and has never been checked out.
Before the vote, Vice Chair Amanda Moore accused Amanchukwu of putting on a "show" to get the book to the district's attention.
Amanchukwu, a contributor to Turning Point USA, travels around the country attending different school board meetings to bring attention to explicit books in school libraries.
"This guy advertised his visit to us weeks before he came. The school was never contacted, the central office was never contacted, and this committee was never contacted, even though he came and yelled at us, Say we have this dangerous book on our shelves,” Vice President Amanda Moore said before the board voted to remove the book from library 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 psycho-rape content is a 'show'... I pray that in 2025, for the least of these people, that 'show' gets bigger," Amanchukwu explain.
He quoted Proverbs 22:6, which says: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
"Our mission is to train kids, not put them in trouble," his statement continued. “I salute the board members for using common sense in managing instruction for students in Murfreesboro City Schools.”
This month, a Minnesota school district pulled a transgender book from an elementary school library after pressure from a concerned parent.
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