You 👏🏻 cannot 👏🏻 opt 👏🏻 out 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 reality.

Today's Supreme Court decision, though couched in the language of freedom and inclusivity, is a tragic failure for both the right to read and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. Authors Against Book Bans stands firmly and fiercely against the decision and its rationale. To allow parents to “object" to the presence of positive books about the lives and rights of LGBTQIA+ people is to allow them to "object" to the existence of LGBTOIA+ students, parents, educators, and others in the wider community. You cannot "opt out" of reality, no matter what today's majority opinion states. These books belong on shelves and these stories belong in classrooms and curricula.

—Authors Against Book Bans

Full statement here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLagLjRAy9m/