<p>An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> school district will review nearly 400 books that were flagged for depictions of sex acts and references to gender identity.</p>
<p>The Urbandale Community School District northwest of Des Moines will review 374 books to figure out whether they violate a new state law.</p>
<p>The new law prohibits schools from purchasing books that depict sex acts and also prohibits teaching gender identity or sexual orientation to students younger than seventh grade.</p>
<p>Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed the law in May, and it took effect on July 1.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for UCSD <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2023/07/31/urbandale-school-district-iowa-book-ban-law-flagged-ulysses-color-purple-heartstopper-lgbtq-themes/70459691007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the list does not necessarily represent any books currently in the school system, but if a book is currently in the system, it must be removed.</p>
<p>UCSD spokeswoman Dena Claire <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/iowa-school-district-review-nearly-400-books-flagged-sex-act-depictions-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that with the school year starting soon, &#8220;we did not want to put our teachers in a position where they had to guess as to what may or may not be acceptable.&#8221;</p>
<p>When lawmakers debated the law in the spring, proponents focused on several books that contain explicit images and graphic descriptions of sexual acts.</p>
<p>Two of those books were &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; by Maia Kobabe and &#8220;All Boys Aren&#8217;t Blue&#8221; by George M. Johnson. “Gender Queer” includes illustrations of sex between two males with a sex toy, oral sex, masturbation, and other sexually explicit content. Both titles have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> in <a href="https://time.com/6120915/george-m-johnson-all-boys-arent-blue-book-bans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many</a> school libraries across the country, often getting banned by schools when outraged parents raised the alarm.</p>
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<p>Both books <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2023/07/31/urbandale-school-district-iowa-book-ban-law-flagged-ulysses-color-purple-heartstopper-lgbtq-themes/70459691007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are on</a> the Urbandale district&#8217;s list of books to review.</p>
<p>Other books on Urbandale&#8217;s list are &#8220;I Love My Colorful Nails,&#8221; about a boy whose classmates laugh at him when he paints his nails, &#8220;Ho&#8217;onani: Hula Warrior&#8221; about a Hawaiian girl who wants to lead the all-boys hula troupe at her school, and &#8220;The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish&#8221; by Lil Miss Hot Mess, a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour, which is a nursery rhyme book about drag shows.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the absence of guidance from the Iowa Department of Education regarding implementation of SF496, we had to take a fairly broad interpretation of the law knowing that if our interpretation was too finite, our teachers and administrators could be faced with disciplinary actions according to the new law,&#8221; the UCSD spokeswoman told Fox News.</p>
<p>She said that the district began compiling the book list when they reviewed &#8220;quarantined&#8221; books from other states that had passed similar laws restricting books at public schools. The list is also not an &#8220;all-inclusive list&#8221; and could change, she <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2023/07/31/urbandale-school-district-iowa-book-ban-law-flagged-ulysses-color-purple-heartstopper-lgbtq-themes/70459691007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a process for staff to question a book on the list and/or recommend additional books they feel may apply,&#8221; the district spokeswoman added.</p>
<p>The Urbandale district serves about 4,000 students.</p>
<p>The issue of sexually explicit and other inappropriate content being easily available to children in their school libraries and curricula has become a hot-button issue over the last few years.</p>
<p>Parents have shown up at school board meetings across the country to raise their concerns, sometimes even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-mom-reads-graphic-gay-porn-found-in-school-library-to-school-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reading</a> graphic passages from books they find objectionable in order to make their point.</p>

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