Calderdale Council’s director of public services has found that the library service’s recommendation to remove six titles went against the guidance provided by the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) and the council’s own stock management policy.
The books included Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce (Oneworld Publications), Material Girls by Kathleen Stock (Fleet), Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier (Regnery Publishing), Double Think by Janice G Raymond (Spinifex Press), Trigger Warning by Sheila Jeffries (Spinifex Press) and Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans (Spinifex Press).
[Ed: This should make us all very proud of Australian publisher Spinifex.]