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Two months after a library board of trustees voted to keep one book featuring a transgender boy, out of 20,000 books in the library’s catalogue, the board was dissolved without any replacement.

Trump’s mention of transgender “insanity” drew a standing ovation, but it’s what came afterwards that revealed the true nature of the GOP’s attacks on the trans community.