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A non-fiction book offering guidance to LGBTQ+ kids called “This Book Is Gay” is being pulled from Hillsborough County middle schools after the county’s school board voted 4-3 Tuesday to ban the book.
School Board members worried the book’s content was inappropriate for middle school students as young as 11 years old.
Even those who dissented – Nadia Combs, Jessica Vaughn and Karen Perez – expressed concern about the book, but voted against the measure because they were initially meant to consider a challenge from just one school, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Hillsborough Schools Superintendent Addison Davis recommended the ban.
– Staff reports, Florida Politics, The Tampa Bay 100