In the fall of 2025, the Asheboro Public Library in North Carolina received a complaint about Call Me Max, a picture book by award-winning transgender author Kyle Lukoff. The library board followed established procedures for reviewing challenged materials and voted 5-2 to keep the book in place. Shortly after the decision the Randolph County Board of Commissioners dismissed eight out of nine of the board members without giving a reason. Two of the dismissed members are speaking out about the personal and civic toll. Steve Grove, one of the dismissed board members, told LGBTQ Nation the decision carried echoes of a darker chapter of American history. “In 1925, Tennessee banned teaching evolution, leading to the Scopes Trial,” he said. “Today, 100 years later, there is absolutely no room in America for prejudice or censorship.”
Library Board Fired Over Trans Children’s Book
