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Hundreds of Tenn. libraries are reviewing children’s books and materials for age and gender content after a state directive. Rutherford County libraries are closed temporarily amid compliance efforts.

Demonstrators gathered outside Murfreesboro City Hall on Monday to protest recent decisions by the Rutherford County Library System Board.

Book publishers and literary groups are challenging orders by Tennessee's secretary of state for public libraries to audit children's collections and eliminate books dealing with gender identity.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett is requiring libraries that receive government funds to make an “age-appropriate” review of books.

Literary organizations, publishers, libraries, and right to read advocates have cosigned a letter of concern to Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett, who earlier this month directed 211 public libraries to review their youth materials for “age-appropriateness” by January 19.

Library patrons will endure a week-long closure at Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to Trump's order on "gender ideology."

Rutherford County Libraries have begun to remove books to comply with the federal government's official position on gender ideology.

PEN America today joins 33 major publishers and national library and literary advocacy groups denouncing directives from the Tennessee Secretary of State warning public libraries to review their collections for “age-appropriateness” and consistency with President Trump’s executive order on gender identity.

Tennessee's Secretary of State orders collection reviews for age-appropriateness and gender ideology

UPDATED: RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN - The momentum surrounding book bans and those against the idea of censorship has been building. During the Rutherford County Library System (RCLS) Board of Directors meeting held this past August, at least two people highlighted their concerns surrounding what many see as a slippery slope. During the public comment section of the meeting held about three months ago, a man by the name of Josh Walker addressed the board on "...Trans existence as scientific/histor ...

Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."

Tennessee public libraries are launching an “immediate age-appropriateness review” of children’s and teens’ books following a state government directive, with some calling the plan “anti-public-library.”

The move is the latest aligning of Tennessee with the president’s initiative to limit children’s access to certain books, with a focus on transgender and other LGBTQ+ issues.

One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.