This investigation is meant to ensure that schools under the Department of Defence, which serve US military families, are in compliance with the new executive orders signed by Donald Trump titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling”.
Moore’s book is reportedly one of several books that the Department of Defence Education Activity has identified to conduct a “compliance review” on, and has been “relocated to the professional collection for evaluation with access limited to professional staff”.
“It is a great shock for me to learn that my first book, Freckleface Strawberry, has been banned by the Trump Administration from schools run by the Department of Defence.
According to a report in The Guardian on Thursday, the DoD sent parents a memo last week stating it was examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”.
“It is galling for me to realise that kids like me, growing up with a parent in the service and attending a Department of Defence Education Activity school will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is so similar to their own.
