Power of a Caring Parent: Wisconsin Elementary School Will Cancel Reading of Gender-bending Book... Here's Why

Fr. Mark Hodges : Dec 2, 2015
LifeSiteNews.com

"I'm glad a parent blew the whistle on this situation, and that's really the important take-away from this incident: the only way parents can be effective whistle-blowers is by being engaged—very engaged—in the school and classroom where their child is." -Julaine K. Appling

(Mount Horeb, WI)—A Wisconsin elementary school has backed off of promoting transgenderism to its primary students, thanks to a mother who alerted Liberty Counsel. (Photo via LifeSiteNews)

The Mount Horeb Area School District released a statement saying it won't proceed with its planned reading of "I Am Jazz," the transgender-normalizing book by LGBTQ activist Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings.

The book is about a boy who identifies as a girl from the age of two, "with a boy's body and a girl's brain." He eventually finds a doctor who tells his parents, "Jazz is transgender."

"The District is not free to override parental rights and religious beliefs by subjecting impressionable children to confusion about something as important as gender and sexuality," the Liberty Counsel letter to school board president Mary Seidl stated.

"The reading of 'I am Jazz' and following discussions about gender confusion and sexuality are the first step toward remaking the moral beliefs of District students, which the District may not do," the letter concluded.

Parents in Maine began to inquire about the book when Horace Mitchell Primary had a reading of it for their young children, and the kids came home wondering if they, too, might be transgender.

"The book is inappropriate," Julaine K. Appling, President of Wisconsin Family Action, told LifeSiteNews. "Public school classrooms should not be places where children are subjected to...

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