Because when someone believes that a parent should be able to control their child’s reading material, that means:

👉 they can restrict them from ever seeing material that shows queer or trans characters or depicts being queer or trans in a positive light.

👉They can restrict their access to sex education.

👉they can restrict them from ever learning about science and medicine that disagrees with their parents faith.

👉they can restrict them from reading any books that would help an abused child realize that their situation is abnormal and abusive.

any time a parent wants to restrict the reading material a child has access to, it is about exerting control on a child and forcing that child to conform to the parent’s worldview, rather than allowing the child to build their own understanding of the world.

Any time a parent controls what reading material their child has access to it is about controlling their child’s mind.

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