Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/tennessee-library-books-purge

Freedom to Read Advocates Sound Alarm on Plan to Review Library Collections

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett demand that public libraries review their collections for “age-appropriateness” and for compliance with a controversial Trump executive order on gender identity.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/11/freedom-to-read-advocates-sound-alarm-on-plan-to-review-library-collections/

#EveryLibrary #JohnChrastka #PENAmerica #Tennessee #TreHargett

#Tennessee #PublicLibraries close for Trump-inspired #BookPurge

Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
Nov 25, 2025

"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State #TreHargett (R) ordered them to remove books with #LGBTQ themes or characters. Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out prohibited volumes."

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https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

#Censorship #Fahrenheit451 #MAGA #Erasure #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #FuckFascism!

Southern states ban transgender books from YA and children's sections in libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-tennessee-transgender-books-libraries