Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’

Lawsuit says student and youth groups hurt after teacher was fired for reading My Shadow is Purple to students

The Southern Poverty Law Center and another group have amended a federal lawsuit against a Georgia school district to include a transgender student and a grassroots youth organization, effectively becoming the “first case challenging anti-LGBTQ book bans” in the state.

The move – done anonymously to protect the student – widens the case’s focus from how teachers are affected by censorship laws and policies in Georgia, to how those same policies affect children.