Transgender Book Read To Kindergartners

School officials under fire for reading transgender children s book to kindergartners without telling their parents.

Transgender book read to kindergartners. I have a girl brain but a boy body jazz says in the book. One california teacher learned the hard way that sharing a transgender story with a kindergarten class is a sure way to be black balled. Officials at horace mitchell primary school in kittery point maine have come.

The book i am jazz was read to rocklin academy gateway school kids back in early june. The story is about a transgender child named jazz who explains to their classmates what transgender is. The book was brought to the school by a kindergarten child with transgender status.

One of the kindergartners wanted to share the book with her. Swaney is the kindergarten teacher at rocklin academy gateway who made headlines last year when she read a book about a transgender child to her students before one of them left the class changed. The teacher defended her decision to read two children s books about transgenderism including one titled i am jazz she says the books were given to her by a transgender child going through a.

Some books are only meant for enjoying at home apparently. Last month approximately 50 kindergartners in an arlington virginia classroom sat on the floor and listened while a transgender spokesperson for the human rights campaign hrc read them a story. Aug 26 2017 2.

A book about a transgender child read during story time in a kindergarten classroom in rocklin has divided a school along ideological lines and sparked a flurry of vitriol on social media and. Joined jul 26 2015 messages 1 951 reaction score 269 points 140. Unfortunately a group of california parents was outraged after a kindergarten teacher tried to do just that by reading a book about a transgender girl in class.

I am jazz is a story about a girl named jazz jennings who is a transgender teen featured on a tlc reality show of the same name.