An audience member interrupted the speaker, asking, “Are you going to misgender people throughout the entire thing?” Lorey then requested that the audience save questions for the end of her presentation. Scott Love, the library’s regional manager, wasn’t willing to wait.

“This is a library,” Love said. “I don’t want any transgender females being called males in sporting events with females. If that happens, it’s not following our code of conduct and we will ask the person to leave immediately.” When Lorey continued to speak about biological males in women’s sports, Love asked her to leave “or we’ll shut the entire program down.” And he did. With apologies to Marian the Librarian (Shirley Jones), this guy is Authoritarian the Librarian.

The library’s code of conduct apparently does not include respect for free speech, or even the simple courtesy of listening to a speaker without interruption.

[I’m genuinely curious as to when we vested librarians with the authority to defy parents and censor speech. The hyperventilating over book “bans” is utter nonsense, but this is flat-out censorship of public speech. — Ed]