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A nationwide controversy over school library books is now playing out in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Parents across the country have been going viral for reading sexual passages from books found in their children's schools at school board meetings.
Fairfax County mother Stacy Langton said hearing about sexual content in other school libraries prompted her to visit her own kids’ school, Fairfax High School, to investigate.
Langton said she found two books describing sexual acts: the graphic novel “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe and the novel “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison.
"So, this is pedophilia here. This is a man having sex with a boy," Langton said while showing News4 one of the books via a video call. "Here, the character is masturbating."
"I don’t know how you defend this. Why would you write such a thing? It’s so - just garbage. It’s absolute filth," she said.
Langton spoke Thursday night at the school board meeting.
"The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys," she said at the meeting.
Midway through the meeting, school officials appeared to cut her off, saying there were children in the audience.