Whatever justification you use to get books like this out of the library will inevitably be contorted by conservatives to ban books on healthy transitioning.
IDK what the solve is here, would love to hear folks thoughts. Move it to the fiction section? Staple a disclaimer inside the cover?
The right doesn’t need the left to do something to do it, they just do it. Reform in Kent already tried to do a ban against books with ‘transgender themes’ (this was later revised to adult transgender books being in the children’s section after backlash). If we’re going to not exercise power, it should be for something more than a fear the right will also do it, because the right doesn’t care and will do it anyway.
Here’s the problem - book bans swing both ways.
Whatever justification you use to get books like this out of the library will inevitably be contorted by conservatives to ban books on healthy transitioning.
IDK what the solve is here, would love to hear folks thoughts. Move it to the fiction section? Staple a disclaimer inside the cover?
Let people read whatever book they want and make up their own minds. Libraries aren’t supposed to be a “ministry of truth”
The right doesn’t need the left to do something to do it, they just do it. Reform in Kent already tried to do a ban against books with ‘transgender themes’ (this was later revised to adult transgender books being in the children’s section after backlash). If we’re going to not exercise power, it should be for something more than a fear the right will also do it, because the right doesn’t care and will do it anyway.