The main local bookstore I shop at is an independent, with an intriguing, history-heavy inventory including a wonderful discounted item section built up from selected parts of the odd ends of stock that publishers would otherwise pulp. So far they have held up wonderfully against the pressures of wokedom.

With that in mind I was a bit disheartened to see that over the past month or so, the "women's studies" section has been removed completely in favour of "queer studies" (as opposed to merely being relabelled "gender studies" with a few books by Robert Bly somewhere) and a prominent feature on the now almost two shelves of "trans"-themed books which dominate that section is none other than the vile "Detransition Baby."

A bit disheartened, but not totally for all that, because somebody is defiantly picking out books with "lesbian" (in big letters! lol) in the title that are about actual lesbians, they can't keep JK Rowling's books in stock, and they just got a new shipment of copies of The Ickabog.

Anybody else noticed such things in physical bookstores, if they are able to access any under these crazy pandemic conditions? (Where I am people can browse for up to 15 minutes, although most don't if they observe a line up to get in.)