Newport Beach Library Board Votes to Move Controversial Book to Teens’ Section

Published on April 18, 2024

Newport Beach’s library board voted to move a controversial book from the children’s section to the teens’ section of all city libraries at an April 15 meeting. Concerned about several books with sexual content in the kids’ section, several residents and parents began requesting the board move the books last summer. Haley Jenkins, a Newport Beach resident and parent, said she noticed what she called inappropriate books last year after her young daughter found a book in the children’s section that discussed transgenderism. “About a year ago [my daughter] found one of these books in the children’s section. She grabbed it off the shelf,” she told The Epoch Times. “It has rainbows and kittens on the front, and she grabbed it and we start looking at it, and it starts talking about how this person is neither a boy nor a girl, and how to change genders.”...

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