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Judge Rules against Trump Admin Effort to Purge 'Woke' Books from Military Schools

Calvin Freiburger : Oct 24, 2025  LifeSiteNews.com

In March 2023, the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) published an update on [Biden's] administration's work to infuse the armed forces with left-wing gender ideology, ranging from enforcement of preferred pronouns to allowing cross-dressing and the use of opposite-sex showers and restrooms on military bases to making it harder to access information on the negative consequences of such policies.

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A federal judge ruled that the US Department of Defense (DOD) must restore hundreds of "woke" books from schools operated for military families on First Amendment grounds. (Image: Pixabay)

On January 29, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling," which called for, among other things, cutting off federal funds to schools that commit ideological or identity-based indoctrination in "K-12 curriculum, instruction, programs, or activities." He also engaged in similar efforts to purge "woke agendas" from the military, and diversity, equity, & inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the federal government.

As part of that work, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) removed hundreds of books promoting "gender ideology" or "discriminatory equity ideology" from the 161 accredited schools it maintains across the world for the children of US service members.

The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with its Kentucky and Virginia chapters, sued on behalf of 12 students, and on October 20, U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles sided with them, Courthouse News Service reported, ordering the Pentagon to restore nearly 600 books to the plaintiffs' five schools, including left-wing works such as the feminist victimhood fantasy "A Handmaid's Tale" but also more classical books such as George Orwell's "1984."

"Surely, if defendants were concerned with pedagogical interests through book removals, they would be able to tender evidence of the age-level perspective they consider and detailed information on the specific pedagogical standards at issue," Giles wrote. "In all candor, the court cannot contemplate the pedagogical basis for banning the 'Gender and Sex' module from Advanced Placement Psychology; lessons on immigration in elementary school; chapters on 'Human Reproductive System, Menstrual Cycle, and Fetal Development,' 'Abuse and Neglect' and 'Adolescence and Puberty' from health education textbooks; and celebrations related to 'identity months,' including Black History and Women's History Months."

"Viewing public school libraries as places of academic freedom and intellectual pursuit conflicts with the United States' notion that school libraries represent government speech," the judge added. "Where other courts have declined to extend the government speech doctrine to the public library context, this court follows suit."

The ruling is not a final resolution of the First Amendment claim, only a determination that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in the judge's opinion.

The steady rise of "woke" ideology within the military, which has persisted and grown since the Clinton years despite the presidencies of Republicans George W. Bush and Trump's first administration, were intensified by ...Joe Biden... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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