NC County Board Dissolves Library Panel Over Refusal to Ban Trans Book |
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A board of commissioners in North Carolina decided earlier this month to dissolve the entire library board of trustees in response to that board refusing to remove a single book featuring a transgender child character from the shelves.
The 3-2 decision by the Randolph County Board of Commissioners was based, in part, on the debunked concept of “social contagion” — the belief that children, after seeing acceptance of LGBTQ people (particularly transgender people), will somehow become “infected” with the idea and seek to change their identities.
The book in question, “Call Me Max,” features a character who says he wants to be called a name that better matches his gender identity — Max. Randolph County library system alleged the book was “planting” the idea of being trans into children’s minds.
In October, in response to a parent’s complaint about the book, the Randolph County Public Library’s Board of Trustees voted 5-2 against removing or relocating the book in its libraries, with some trustee members describing such........