02.12.2025 Mrs. Bence Rants

Recording and ranscript of Mrs. Bence 15+ minute anti-LGBTQ book rant and another 5-minute rant against other things she doesn't like.

(This is a transcript with no commentary from me. 2 recordings are provided at the end.)

February has… Teo’s Tutu is the first one. Okay. This is a children's book that I'm recommending. Go into the adult section for adult supervision. At first glance, it's a very innocuous, good feeling book. You can be any gender you want to be as the first set. Subtle message couched in sophisticated ballet terms and frequent French words, which add to that feeling that the one talking to us is more educated than we are. Alienating the average reader. Me, severely alienating the average six year old. We're supposed to be so impressed by the vocabulary, the artwork, the inclusivity of a boy who wants to be a girl in the ballet program that we forget what children are learning at that age. 2, 3, and 4 year olds are learning what gender they are. That's one of the things they learn. Sex education of a child at that age is to learn what boys and girls do and men and women. Most children enjoy crossing over to the other side. As far as gender roles. There's no place for a book that then glorifes that person, staying in that role. And that's what this book does. Evidently, I would be a man now, for example, because I was a tomboy. My sex education was alive and well. At age 6, I watched my mother breastfeed the other seven kids. So did some of the neighbor kids. But to start sex education in 2 and 3 and 4 and telling kids they need to decide what gender they are, that's a little much, no? They put a girl's costume on this little boy and made him feel like he wanted to be a girl. They finally let him be a girl. They, the parents, and the whole community finally accepted you as a girl. This book makes a point to make us feel like dummies because we don't feel like smiling, like the teacher does, like the class does, like the bumpy decorations do. It's total acceptance through the Artwork and script for Teo to act like a girl, dress like a girl and become a hero. And the performance as a star performer, the ballet. That's it. I just think it ought to be under adult Supervision for Children 2 and 3 and 4 to be reading it.

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And the next one is Tango Makes Three. The theme of this book is that there's families of all kinds. That's true. If you're a very young child trying to fgure out what a family is and the different between boys and girls and men and women could be confusing. It's a beautiful art book. It's in picture books. On the second page, the artwork depicts all kinds of families except a traditional family. There's not a traditional family. The story is beautiful in art and message, but the message is aberration in nature. Pairing up two males to have their own family to adopt this little egg and hatch it and have a child. And I don't know what the actual rate is. They have 42. This is actually based on a biologist who wrote this book from this zoo. And there's 42 penguin couples in that zoo. And one of them is, you know, the two males are raising this little baby. And this is written for children again, 2, 3 and 4. Right at the age when children are grasping the knowledge of what a family is in the role of parents, siblings, male and female, we're introducing children to a whole new dynamic which, together with other avenues of propaganda in the media, lead to a trend in gender confusion that we see now. This book is not good propaganda. It's great propaganda. In other words, it gradually introduces the audience to the concept of same sex parents cloaked in many scientifc facts. The outlier being the percentage of this occurrence. This book is a must read for every song, same sex family and couple. It really is. The author makes this occurrence special and rare by his wording, but becomes sympathetic to their plight. It is not helpful to young minds below about age 10 when children have hopefully learned what Most families consist of young children do not need this confusion early in life. So this long story short, it could be, I guess in the juvenile because it's got legends when I read it way back in November, it would be okay, like for a 10 year old that understands, you know, gender roles and stuff like that. Mr. Grazie, who is a scientist at the zoo, is a human hero. A single parent who loves two children and two other men. If you look at the artwork in his office, his whole life is men. Similarly, there are no traditional couples in the book, no traditional moms or dads. Therefore, due to its lopsidedness and early introduction of average sex throughout this book would best serve in middle ground who hopefully understand concept of the outliers. You know, it's an outlier story. We're glorifying the difference when little children need to know what's normal. Just like we don't tell them about cops that kill people innocently. You know, we tell them that cops are going to help them. You know, just teaching kids the basics.

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This is Drama. It's a resubmission from two and a half years ago. The theme of this book is eighth graders. One steady and changing partners constantly. They're planning for graduation from eighth grade and eighth grade prom. And in childhood psychology, I remember way back in the 70s, we learned that middle school is the time to develop same sex friendships. Even though there are crushes. And some pairing up is secondary to the stepping block toward healthy heterosexual friendships later by having your same sex friends. So this is completely skimmed up or bypassed. And this developmental stage is completely ignored in this book. Instead of being preoccupied with sports, friendships, family, hobbies, this book is saturated with who's going with whom. And this is a graphic book. There's a cell phone conversation late at night in the bedroom as the parent does not even take the phone. No parental supervision. The kids are running their own life. Comedy or comics like these are a good way to break down the social mores. When we laugh at some of these situations they're in. Pairing up the two men, the two boys and the two girls. Callie is constantly surprised by the next gay discovery. But she keeps discovering more and more of her friends are gay. Page 10, graphic mouth kissing not age appropriate. Page 19, normalizing deep romance. Not appropriate. Page 58. It is not surprising we've seen the boom in homosexuality. When a child feels particularly close to their own gender, they begin to think they're homosexual. From books Just like this. So I think this one I recommended going up from juvenile to middle ground or adult. I said adult for supervision. So it would go from. It's in ju. It's in juvie now juvenile. In fact, I think there's a couple copies in juvenile. It should go up to adult for supervision. Very convincing that most of your friends are homosexual. And the E probably are homosexual. It's a very big bestseller. Drama is the big bestseller.

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The next one is the Other Boy. The Other Boy has the same theme of a gentle book pushing the trans agenda. Because the plot can see of the hero having crush after crush on other girls. Now the hero is a girl, but now he identifies. But now she identifies as a boy. Underlying drastic hormone blockers and now testosterone because his parents over payed his very low. You don't learn that this character is a girl till chapter four when his father's fiance asks him to be a bridesmaid and he loses it. Chapter five explains that he's always been since age three. She wanted to be a boy and argued that his friend Matt could be a boy without a peanut. When he was using peanut for the word penis, I never heard that. So he did not want to have the peanuts, the penis, so he wanted to be a girl. Both parents are busy vying for acceptance and they spoil him. So no matter what he thinks, he's in charge, he can be the girl. He would gradually become the hero through the book like they always do. They will grow sexually and confuse. I'm reading the last sentence here. This soft propaganda pulls one with its great conversations where you feel the love and acceptance of his friend Josh. But in the background as you read, realize that authority and rules have no place in his life. The author makes fun of the Catholic school and his friend switches over to Hollywood Vine. It may seem innocuous that there are crushes one after the other, but no actual porn. They're not actually having sex in this book. But this is still early sexualizing that 8 year olds who are good readers and will be choosing this book in middle ground have no need to be exploited in this philosophy. So I recommend, even though I found this in middle ground, just casually looking in middle ground. I recommend that it would go up to adult for supervision.

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Excuse me, Gracefully Grayson also I read in November. I'm struggling a little bit. It's currently in middle ground. It needs to be an adult. This is another one I happened on. Grayson is a transgender 12 year old who learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world. That was provided by the publisher as a summary and the American Library Association Rainbow Coalition says it is encouraged this book shows courage to change who she really is. In praise of this book. There are several themes in the book that most people would find troubling for tweens and young teens. Both heroes are gay and trans or trans. Since these readers are in their formative years, most parents and citizens would not want the soft propaganda these books provide. There are no teachers that are straight described positively anyway. The one positive teacher is gay. Of course Middle Ground books need to ground children and the heroes of authority who impact their lives. A book about a boy who is unhappy about his gender from age 3 and defiantly says he's a girl displays a lack of respect for authority that the author sees as virtuous. The main hero, Grayson, constantly dreams of being a girl because this delusion comforts him through his great losses. He lost his mom for one day. That is how he escapes. He craves the strictness and structure provided by his favorite teacher who is another gay hero. His step parents have abdicated the roles of authority and attention giving so they really are the villains but are portrayed as typical parents. Grayson screams at his parents from page 196 to 199. He's having a big temper tantrum, yet the family even at this point does not seek counseling. His idols his idols other than this teacher are materialistic in terms of giving him a gold glitter pen, a bird charm, a bird in a painting, a normal kid without role models to know any better. He thinks of himself all the time. He never thinks of others and what they might be wanting. The author just lets him stay in that mindset, wallowing increased isolation instead of maturing and learning to look outward. There's no growth during the happier that this book describes other than that he learns to defy authority wherever he goes and be brave, which would be defined as defiance and loss of control by most adults, but could easily be accepted by impressionable children. That's why to me that was what I call soft propaganda. It's like this is the way to live. This is making your friends cross over to the other side.

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Okay, the last one I know you'll be glad to know it's Ryan and Avery and this is a book that's in young adult that needs to be an adult and this actually represents, I'm Sad to say, 100 and some. I did the count this morning. It's a huge number of books that are in ya. Evidently there's been some recent purchasing it went from 58 to 100 something. But anyway, there's a bunch of these type of books in YA and this is one of them. Ryan and Avery. This best selling author is an expert in soft porn. This is David Levithan as the author. It belongs in adult section for supervision on almost every page except for a couple chapters. There's kissing which comes short of sex. But the description of skin through the clothing makes the reader think about sex the entire book. The constant kissing takes away from any other theme or plot as one is just waiting for the couple to go all the way. The whole focus is bodies and attraction and listening. The latter is good. Trade listening is good. That's what I mean by soft porn. That's how propaganda works. There's something good in any propaganda. Sexualization, however is the underlying theme. The uncommitted sex, whether heterosexual homosexual is predominant in happens to be all queer sex in this story. Queer play actors, queer hero, teacher. The theme of near sex at every turn is disheartening. Let this type of poem be left for adults which only emphasizes the need to put YA in the adult section. Let the parent realize what the child is reading. At least now they still have the freedom of their library card. If the parent trusts the kid, let them have the library card. Why a section should be abolished as it harbors this type of adult book. Both boys have had previous sex partners so they're going slow on this one. This is going to be their best one. We're wondering what gender Avery will be. We're left wondering that since it seems he has changed genders several times since he was a young child. Both heroes are 16. The parents of Ryan, who do not wholeheartedly accept their gay lifestyle are portrayed as villains in every way since they have guidelines and consequences. Since the whole focus is to get to the point of having sex, the reader is drawn in on every page with every kiss and body description. The couple is met in a gay prompt and it's a love story in every way. But the normalizing and making heroes of the gays is not helpful for young teens. And the teen room is of course visited by 12 and up. Read many of the old classics and you'll fnd that men and women have same sex friends and they even held hands and doted on each other. But it wasn't sexualizing like the literature is nowadays. This developmental stage of age 10 to 16 makes this seem normal to same sex attraction going to sex, not just friendship. This author has never studied human growth and development. Doesn't care how he is leading the children. That's for sure. And I have a whole other page that I won't read to you on that book, but it's kind of got a similar theme. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you for having me today. I haven't end out, so I will try not to say everything I want to say because I want to say a lot in response to Marlena, actually. I really. I feel strongly that the books in the YA section should go over to adult. I hate to see that we spend any of the library board's money until that gets resolved, because what's happened is it's gotten a lot worse as Ms. Maner walked out the door, I guess because six months ago we had 58 LGBTQ books in the teen, synonymous with the room downstairs. Now there's 124. There was 20 in the children. Now there's 44. There was 98 in juvenile, there's 178. So I just want to clarify that things have gotten worse in spite of a wonderful ordinance. I don't know what the solution is other than moving Hawaii books out into the section that we know a lot. I know Greta and Karen in the December meeting were emphatic about how we should trust the publisher. And in this one case, I agree. The publishers all say that these books that I keep appealing and everything, most of them are YA and they need to be in the adult. And I agree with the publisher. The publisher says they're young adult books. They don't need to be in the teen room. And I've called around. It's not just Columbia County. A lot of counties in Georgia have teen rooms that stock YA books. That's inappropriate. The problem is the librarians and the libraries are choosing to put the YA books in a teen room that's actually segregated from the rest of the library, where 12 and up go in that room. I watch that. Also, Marlena said the Bible is in the library, and she's afraid kids will get ahold of that. Looking through my eyes, the Bible's in the adult section. There's several different versions. They're all over in the adult section. Unless it's some adapted version that I haven't found, maybe in the juvenile or something. But the Bible is in the adult section. The Constitution was written for adults. If you remember the story of the Pilgrims. It wasn't a bunch of kids on that. Those ships, you know, it was a bunch of adults, and they had to.There was Bradford, you know, came and tried to have a colony and then they wrote, you know, down the road, the founding fathers wrote a constitution and bill rights and all that and stuff. You know, that was pretty much all adults and they were writing it for adults. It wasn't kids doing all this stuff. And that's what we need to remember today. Today we've elevated children to where they have Constitutional Bill of Rights, Constitutional rights, Bill of Rights. Those apply to adults. Adults are supposed to guard the safety of children. We're in charge of our children, not the Constitution. So that's been a misconception of a lot of people who are, well, who are well meaning. The same thing applies to the American Library Association When Ms. Mac Mayor redid the Bill of Rights and all the. I'm forgetting the other word. What's the other thing besides Bill of Rights? The bylaws. You know, she really just called it the Columbia county, but it's really American Library Association. So read that with jaundice dye to, you know, try to make them better. So they're not the best thing in the world. World. The Bill of Rights is just ala. It's just regurgitated ala. So my big good news today. There is good news that our country has completely shifted. We heard by executive order there's two genders. So a lot of the grants coming down to libraries and everything, State Board of Education, all these entities is going to require people to accept the fact that there's two genders. And that makes a big difference and how we should look at our books.Do we want children to try to discover what gender they are for the frst 15 years of their life, or do we want them to just start being productive citizens early on and learn the important lessons that we learn by reading classes and biographies and the wholesome literature that we grew up on? There's so much work that we can do and now we can shift over and try to get middle ground better. More str. Bookshelf in mill Brown, for example, is very bare and yet we've got classics downstairs that are getting brown and they're just checked out by honor system. They're not even checked out. That's how we've neglected the classics. You can go down there in the downstairs and see where the classics are. Real pathetic. So again, the shocking fnd to me was the young adult section went from 58 to 124 books. LGBTQ promoting went up to 44 children and 178 in juvenile. Most classics teach our generation.

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Over 15 minutes of anti-LGBTQ ranting against 6 books by Priscilla Bence.

5 Minutes of Mrs. Bence ranting against the American Library Association, Young Adult books, children having constitutional rights, etc.