Former President Barack Obama attracted controversy after he penned a letter criticizing books “being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives,” citing books “often written by or featur[ing] people of color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.”

Several conservative Twitter accounts immediately took the former president to task with examples of LGBTQ+ books frequently challenged for their “pornographic content.”

These accounts highlighted books like Doing It!: Let’s Talk About Sex, Flamer, This Book Is Gay, and Gender Queer: A Memoir, three of which appear on the American Library Association’s list of 2022’s most challenged books because they are “claimed to be sexually explicit.”