"Earlier this year, President Trump issued executive orders demanding federal agencies remove and prohibit any materials that promote "gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology." In January, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued the memoranda "Restoring America's Fighting Force," which prohibited "instruction on Critical Race Theory (CRT), DEI, or gender ideology," and "Identity Months Dead at DoD," which barred using official resources for celebrations such as Black History Month, Women's History Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month."
"According to the plaintiffs, DoDEA officials sent emails directing teachers to remove books and cancel lesson plans and events that would be in violation of Trump's executive orders and Hegseth's guidance. Books removed from school libraries at military bases covered such topics as sexual identity, racism and LGBTQ pride. You can see a list of the books here."
A federal judge ordered the Department of Defense to return books about gender and race to five school libraries on military bases. In April, 12 students at DoDEA schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan claimed their First Amendment rights were violated after nearly 600 books were removed. The students are children of active-duty service members from pre-K through 11th grade. The ACLU and its Kentucky and Virginia affiliates filed a motion requesting the return of all books and curriculum quarantined or removed under the Executive Orders. Executive orders and Defense memoranda prohibited materials described as promoting gender ideology and barred instruction on CRT, DEI, or gender ideology while restricting observance of identity months. DoDEA officials directed teachers to remove books, cancel lesson plans and events; removed books covered sexual identity, racism, and LGBTQ pride; and some schools cancelled identity and remembrance events.
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