Accommodate Transgender Students — Within Reason
- The head of Kent County Council confirmed that all transgender-themed books will be promptly taken out from the children's areas across the county’s 99 libraries.
- This action followed a Reform councillor being contacted by a member of the public about trans-ideological material found in a children's library section, prompting the instruction to remove such books.
- Reform UK members justify the ban by claiming young people must be protected from ideologies they consider potentially harmful, comparing it to safeguarding from alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling.
- Kemkaran described the move as a 'victory for common sense in Kent,' while opposition figures criticized the announcement's vague nature and its communication via social media rather than council channels.
- The removal has sparked accusations of censorship and a targeted attack on trans and neurodivergent communities, raising concerns about erasing trans visibility in public spaces.
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Have Gay Rights Gone Too Far, or Not Far Enough?
To the Editor: In “Gay People Won. So Why Does It Feel as if We’re Losing?” (Opinion guest essay, June 29), Andrew Sullivan claims that trans people, by seeking to protect the civil rights necessary for them to live safely, are trying to undo the gender binary and discount the gender identity of others. But just as gay marriage did not erode the institution of marriage or make heterosexual marriages any less valid, the protection of the rights o…

Accommodate transgender students — within reason
Like Arnie MacDonald (“I’m celebrating the miracle that is my transgender daughter,” Opinion, June 29), I am a parent, lawyer, former community leader and spouse of a teacher. In 2016, I wrote a column supporting inclusion and accommodation of transgender students. I believe, as Attorney MacDonald does, that “public policies should be grounded in dignity, […]


Reform council claim ‘trans-related’ library book ban ‘not a change of policy’
The council has since rowed back on suggestions that the book was in the children’s section.
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