Finally Wisconsin does something right - I am Jazz reading

[goddess40]

'I Am Jazz' co-author will attend reading of transgender book in Mount Horeb

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/local_schools/i-am-jazz-co-author-will-attend-reading-of-transgender/article_4cb0c8ad-191e-5cda-affb-94d5fcdb9075.html

On Nov. 23, the Mount Horeb Primary Center was scheduled to read and discuss the book, the real-life story of Jazz Jennings, a transgender girl. The school was working with a student who has male anatomy but identifies as a girl, so the reading was arranged in an effort to educate other students and "to support this student in living as her authentic self."

But the reading was canceled after the Florida-based Liberty Counsel — a self-described religious "litigation, education and policy" group that is also classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — threatened to sue the district if it proceeded.


Since Liberty Counsel intervened the school chickened out to avoid a law suit so they held the book reading at the library expecting 15 - 25 people and they got almost 600

Mount Horeb is a small town of about 7000, while it is near our most liberal city it was the city my knuckle dragging sister and her knuckle dragging husband chose to live in while he worked in Madison. They must of felt it had some redeeming qualities that was worth the daily drive for their extreme right wing beliefs