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The Guardian - UK
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A US state shelved my book – yet all I was doing was trying to help people live their lives

Ron DeSantis
‘Governor Ron DeSantis has passed a bill in Florida banning certain books from classrooms.’ Photograph: Daniel A Varela/AP

I check Twitter and nearly spit out my coffee. I’m tagged in a post by the Florida Freedom To Read Project, stating that a number of library books have been taken off the shelves, including mine.

I stare at a photograph of a trolley full of banned books, rounded up in one day, in one library, and locate the black spine of the Trans Teen Survival Guide – a book that I wrote with my partner, Owl. It is sitting next to a book called This Book Is Anti-Racist, and I think to myself that you can’t get much more explicit than that in your agenda to ban books that are meant to support people.

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