Gender-critical books have been treated like Mein Kampf by a public library, it can be revealed.

Works by authors including Helen Joyce and Prof Kathleen Stock were hidden from view by a library service of the Labour-run Calderdale council, and are now barred from being promoted in displays in order to protect the public from offence.

The only other book similarly censored by the library service by being hidden was Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, The Telegraph can reveal.

Authors are furious at the revelation that their gender-critical work, which critiques the belief that gender self-identification takes precedence over biological sex, has been handled in the same way as the 1925 manifesto of the future Nazi dictator.