Scott Jaquith is Director of School Counseling at Alvirne High School in the small, conservative town of Hudson, New Hampshire. He is also a long-time member of the Nashua Library Board of Trustees. I saw him in April at the anti-Trump “Hands Off!” rally in downtown Nashua, waving a Pride Progress Flag.
The Pride Progress Flag represents the worst excesses of transgenderism including forcing women to accommodate men in their sports and spaces and the medical transition of gender-confused children. I didn’t ask him why he was holding that flag, but knowing what I know about his work as a Library Trustee, I’ll assume the worst.
Last year, a Nashua mom of young kids was horrified to discover that the Nashua Library has the 2021 revised edition of “The Bare Naked Book” in the picture book section of the library’s children’s room, where one of her children picked it up and looked through it.
This edition of “The Bare Naked Book” has an illustration of a topless woman wearing nipple rings. The nipple rings are worn to be sexually titillating and used for BDSM, bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism activities. The text on the page calls attention to the nipple rings in case the child doesn’t notice them.
There is also an illustration of a bearded woman with mastectomy scars. The woman has a beard so that kids will know she is a trans-identified female who has amputated her breasts in a vain attempt to erase evidence of her biological sex and look more like a man.
This is the censored illustration. I censored it because it is not appropriate for this family-friendly blog, even though it is an illustration for a picture book targeted at kids aged 2-5. Click here to view the original.
The mom requested that the book be moved to the parenting shelf in the library’s children’s room so that young children wouldn’t pick it up and look at it without parental supervision. The library staff rejected her request.
She appealed that decision to the Nashua Library Trustees. In the Trustees’ meeting where they discussed and voted to reject the mom’s appeal, Trustee Scott Jaquith said this about the book:
It allows some children to just see themselves for who they are and I think that’s what our mission for the library is about.
Alvirne High School Director of School Counseling and Nashua Library Trustee Scott Jaquith believes that some small children see themselves in an image of a topless woman wearing nipple rings and a trans-identified woman showing off her mastectomy scars. He also waves the Pride Progress Flag.
The parents of Alvirne High students trust him to keep their kids safe at school, and the parents of Nashua trust him to keep the library safe for their children. I do not believe he is worthy of their trust.
