WARNING: The following article contains sexually explicit content.
At least 14 Fort Worth ISD campus libraries have a copy of an obscene, pornographic and potentially illegally-placed book, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out. Four of the campuses are middle schools: Benbrook Middle School, J. Martin Jacquet Middle School, Riverside Middle School, and Wedgwood Middle School.
The book contains explicit language, violent acts, and graphic descriptions of oral sex carried out by children as young as 6 years-old.
On page 80, “From six up, I used to kiss other guys in my neighborhood, make out with them, and perform oral sex on them. I liked it. I used to love oral. And I touched their you-know-whats. We were really young but that’s what we did.” The story goes on to describe pedophiles masturbating.
The author does not mention that these acts were illegal or harmful. In fact, the author’s writing does the opposite – creating the impression that these activities should be celebrated.
Beyond Magenta is written mostly in first-person to present the stories of six different children. By doing so the author may pretend to take cover in the telling of another’s story. But undoubtedly, the book is written to persuade, affirm, and indoctrinate.
A year ago Stand for Fort Worth reported that Fort Worth ISD libraries were exposing 86,000 kids – some as young as kindergarten – to transgender sex-ed content without parental notice or consent. Fort Worth ISD has had a year to remove these books from taxpayer-funded library shelves. But no action has been taken.
Transgender sex-ed content in Fort Worth ISD libraries appears to violate Texas law. We call on Superintendent Kent Scribner and the Fort Worth ISD Board to immediately remove books that peddle pedophilia and any other content that exposes thousands of Fort Worth children to sexually explicit material.