What I discovered isn’t so much a problem of banned books. It’s that kids are often exposed to only one side of the story.

For example, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, which argues that the “only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination,” is stocked in 42 percent of the U.S. school districts I surveyed.

Meanwhile, only a single school district—Northside Independent School District (ISD) in San Antonio, Texas—offers students Woke Racism by John McWhorter, a book that challenges the borderline religious “anti-racist” ideas advanced by Kendi.

Felix Ever After, a book by Kacen Callender that claims that girls who hate “being forced into dresses and being given dolls” are transgender, is available in 77 percent of the districts I surveyed. But not a single school out of the nearly 5,000 I searched offers books critical of trans theory. Students won’t find books like Trans by Helen Joyce or Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier, both recent bestsellers that present skeptical takes on the rapid rise of transgender identification among adolescents.

[The truth about ‘banned’ books is that they don’t exist in the US. You may not find some titles in any given library, but libraries are not intended to be comprehensive; they are curated for size and audience. If you want to buy books with arguably pornographic content, go to the bookstore or Amazon, and nothing will prevent you from purchasing them. — Ed]