…Meanwhile, the Tennessee Secretary of State, Republican Tre Hargett, sent a letter to all 181 libraries in the Tennessee Regional Library System last month demanding that they remove books that contain “gender ideology” or diversity, equity, and inclusion from children’s and young adult sections. He threatened to withhold funding from libraries that did not comply.

Hargett cited Donald Trump’s executive orders banning DEI practices in federal government, and declaring that there are only two sexes and that trans people don’t exist against medical and scientific consensus, which are not law and have been partially blocked by a federal court.