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NC County Fires Entire Library Board Over Promoting Child-Grooming Books

by | Dec 17, 2025 | News

As a North Carolina native, I’ve been watching a story develop in Randolph County involving its public library, and despite the predictable hysteria from the usual activist press, this is one of those rare moments where local government actually did what it’s supposed to do.

In Randolph County, North Carolina, the public library’s board of trustees voted to keep a child grooming book called Call Me Max on the shelves. The book presents gender identity ideology to kids—not adults, not even teens, but elementary-aged children—framing the idea that a child can simply declare themselves the opposite sex and expect affirmation from the world around them.

Being a conservative county in NC, as expected, parents objected. Loudly. Repeatedly. But the board reviewed the complaints, cited its internal policy, and shrugged. At that point, the county commissioners stepped in. In a narrow 3–2 vote, they dissolved the entire library board.

Cue the meltdowns.

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Pro-groomer publications and similar outlets rushed to frame this as a book ban, censorship, or some kind of authoritarian purge. None of that is true. No books were burned. No librarians were fired. No speech was criminalized. What happened was far more basic and far more threatening to the activist class. Elected officials exercised oversight over an unelected board that had lost the confidence of the public it supposedly serves.

We all know that this was never about “access to information.” Adults can read whatever garbage they want. This was about whether taxpayer-funded institutions should be used to normalize queer theory and package it up and sell it to children and then act shocked when parents push back. That’s not education. That’s indoctrination. And people are finally waking up to the difference.

What Randolph County’s commissioners did wasn’t extreme. It was corrective. It reaffirmed that public institutions exist to serve the public, not to quietly advance elite ideological projects while dismissing dissent as ignorance or bigotry.

So yes, credit where it’s due. The Randolph County commissioners chose to protect children over activists, accountability over arrogance, and local self-government over bureaucratic stonewalling. In a time when too many officials fold the moment they’re yelled at by the press, that deserves praise.

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