Nashville school district votes to remove transgender textbook after heated board meeting

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

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

This book introduces the concept of gender identity to four-year-old students, according to its definition.

“Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, either way, or somewhere in between,” he said.

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

After Amanchukwu started reading the book, board chairman Butch Campbell objected to the pastor bringing the book to the meeting, saying he was against the rules of bringing the agenda only during public comment.

The pastor continued to read from within the book, calling the book’s message about polygamy “false” and quoting the Book of Genesis.

After about two minutes, the board tried to get Amanchukwu to stop speaking, forcing the meeting to adjourn.

North Carolina pastor John Amanchukwu earlier spoke at a Wake County School Board meeting. (Wake County School Board/Screenshot)

At the January 14 school board meeting this week, the board announced that the book with transgender themes was reviewed by a staff and parent committee, which recommended that the book be removed.

Another board member said the book has been on the shelves since 2022 and has never been tested.

Before they voted, vice-chairman Amanda Moore accused Amanchukwu of making a “show” to bring the letter to the attention of the county.

Amanchukwu donates to Turning Point USA and travels the country to various school board meetings to draw attention to graphic novels in school libraries.

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

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A child reads a book at the City of Santa Clarita Public Library Valencia branch in Santa Clarita, California, US, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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

“If my commitment to protect children from things that rape them mentally is a ‘show’….I pray that this ‘show’ will be big for these little ones, in 2025,” said Amanchukwu.

He quoted Proverbs 22:6, which says: “Raise a child in a way that will be his own, so that when he grows up, he will not depart from it.”

“We have been called to train children, not to quarrel with them,” continued his statement. “I salute the board members for using common sense in managing the education of Murfreesboro City Schools students.”

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

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Rochester Public Schools said it pulled the 2022 book, “The Rainbow Parade” by Emily Neilson, from its elementary school media center last month after a Franklin Elementary School parent raised concerns about nudity in the book.