{"id":37638,"date":"2025-07-04T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37638\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:52:08","slug":"kent-council-bans-transgender-books-in-childrens-library-section-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37638\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent council bans transgender books in children\u2019s library section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A council has removed all transgender-related books from the children&#8217;s sections of its libraries, its leader has announced.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on social media, Kent County Council leader Linden Kemkaran said the books were to be removed with immediate effect in a &#8220;victory for common sense in Kent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Webb, Reform UK&#8217;s communities portfolio holder who oversees libraries, said the move came after a &#8220;concerned member of the public&#8221; contacted him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liberal Democrat leader of the opposition, Antony Hook, said: &#8220;It is bizarre that the leader of the council is making announcements on social media, rather than to the council.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has removed all transgender-related books from the children&#8217;s sections of its libraries, its leader has announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-37638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}