Liberals have always been advocates of freedom of thought. The left, not so much.
I’m old enough to remember when liberals said people had a duty to buy and read banned books. For example, see this 1999 article from The Baltimore Sun.
Powells, which is a famous lefty bookstore in Portland, celebrates Banned Book Week, and has a page devoted to banned books. But for some crazy reason I can’t find When Harry Became Sally on their site. It is, as you probably know, the book Amazon doesn’t want you to read.
The left in America used to be controlled by liberals. Now it’s controlled by authoritarian progressive wackos.
So many of those books aren’t “banned” in any meaningful sense, but the one that can’t be obtained from the source that has a supermajority lock on book sales, isn’t on the list.
Yes, it’s only a virtue-signaling homage to free thought. Not the real thing.