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Parent tells Sheridan County School District 2 board library collection lacks balance on transgender resources
Summary
At a district board meeting, parent Dwight Stanislaw told trustees the high school library collection is heavily weighted toward trans-affirming materials and asked the board to enforce policy IJL's requirement for a "broad diversity of opinion."
Dwight Stanislaw, a Sheridan parent, told the Sheridan County School District 2 Board of Trustees that the Sheridan High School library collection does not meet the district's stated selection standards and leaves students without balanced material on gender issues.
"When the district decides it wants to wade into the waters of a contentious cultural issue and carry resources at all, there exists an obligation to follow district policy closely and provide a robust collection of resources that present a broad diversity of opinion," Stanislaw said during public comment. He told trustees he had read the district's collection and documented a disparity of materials on transgender topics.
Stanislaw said he found 22 trans‑affirming nonfiction titles, one neutral title and one title he classified as opposing or body/biology affirming, and that library staff resisted adding additional countervailing…
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