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be able to read it.”
By R. E. Wermus, The Daily Signal March 2025 A Texas mother is looking to pass several bills through the state legislature this ses- sion after discovering what she calls “vulgar,” “profane,” and “indecent” books in pub- lic school libraries across the state.
Even after books are ex- posed for being indecent, the process to get them re- moved from school districts can be lengthy. In February 2024, The Daily Signal reported that Llano High School Principal Scott Patrick emailed Wal- lace saying it would take “roughly 30 days” for the school district to review each cited book. When asked what advice Wallace would offer con- cerned parents, she said,
Bonnie Wallace, a member of the Llano County Library Advisory Board and mother to a former Llano County In- dependent School District student, began warning par- ents, school officials, and lawmakers about the inap- propriate content available to children in public schools after she found dozens of “bad books” at her local high school library. “Someone showed me a picture from a book, and the book is called ‘Gender Queer,’ and it’s by … an author named Maia Kobabe … and it was in our li- brary,” Wallace told The Daily Signal. “Gender Queer” contains graphic depic- tions of sex and discusses topics such as “gender identity” and sexual preference. During her investigations into Texas public school libraries, Wallace said she found books containing QR codes that link to online sex shops, Planned Parent- hood, and a website called “F***ing Trans Women.” Wallace regularly attends school board meetings where she reads passages from such books found in school libraries, so parents and staff know the kind of con- tent children are able to access. “They tell me, ‘Mrs. Wallace, you cannot say those words in this room. … They’re vulgar, they’re profane, they’re indecent.’ … I tell all of them, ‘You are exactly right. I agree with you. It’s profanity, it’s pro- fane, it’s indecent, it’s obscene. Why is it in a book in your high school or your jun- ior high?’”
books, Wallace said, “Sexual themes, cut- ting. There’s a lot of books about cutting. There’s books about suicide.” “Cutting” is a form of self-injury, in which a person cuts himself or herself to cope with emotional pain.
“Be involved, because the main theme that I encounter everywhere I go is igno- rance. People have no idea what’s in the libraries these days.”
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One of the bills Wallace pro- posed to the state legislature this year is to prohibit public school li- braries from carrying any book banned in Texas prisons. “The Texas Department of Crim- inal Justice that handles all the prisons in Texas and protocols, they have a list of 10,800 books that they prohibit Texas prisoners from accessing,” Wallace told The Daily Signal. “Any sex act that is illegal in Texas cannot be in a book that’s sent to a prisoner in Texas. … By the way, I have books in high schools and junior highs that have all of these things. It’s shocking.” In June 2024, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reposted a clip on X of Wallace reading excerpts from a book found in the Brownsville In- dependent School District, saying, “If a book cannot be read out loud at a school board meeting in Texas, then there is no reason for Texas children in school to
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