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Facing down leftist vitriol and activist-driven anger, a Tennessee library board voted to fire a library director who refused to follow a directive aimed at shielding kids browsing library shelves from transgender ideology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Rutherford County Library board voted 8-3 on Monday to fire director Luanne James after she refused their direction to move transgender-themed books from the children\u2019s section of the library to the adult section. Leftist activists showed up in force to the board meeting in Murfreesboro, a suburb of Nashville, where they repeatedly disrupted the meeting with yelling and screaming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The vote came after the board directed James to move books with transgender themes to the adult section of the library, where they could still be checked out by parents or by kids with parental approval. James refused to comply with the board, <\/span>claiming<\/span><\/a> that moving the books to a different location in the library would violate the First Amendment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Books the board directed moved to the adult section included \u201cThe Gender Wheel,\u201d \u201cWho Are You? The Kids Guide to Gender Identity,\u201d and \u201cWhen Aidan Became A Brother\u201d \u2014 a picture book about a gender-confused girl who started identifying as a boy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe law was made to protect the most vulnerable, which is children. Follow the law,\u201d Rutherford County school board member Caleb Tidwell said during public comment at the meeting. \u201cProtect the children. Hold the line.\u201d<\/p>\n When given a chance to speak during the meeting, James said she would not change her mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI stand by my decision. I will not change my mind,\u201d she said. <\/span>In a later statement, she said she lost her job because she was fired for protecting \u201cthe rights of all community members to access books and information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI refused to do so because I believe such action constitutes censorship, violates the First Amendment, and goes against my duty to uphold intellectual freedom under American Library Association guidelines,\u201d she said. \u201cLibrarians should not be used as a filter for political agendas. I stood up for the right to read \u2014 standing for the citizens of Rutherford County. I believe my firing is an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination. This action hurts library patrons, not just the librarian.\u201d<\/p>\n Footage from the meeting revealed the crowd erupting in anger at the board\u2019s decision to fire her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n