High school students, who belonged to their school SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Alliance) club, organized a morning reading in front of their school. In response to the cancellation, the community rallied in support of the first-grade girl whose identity has been kept private by her family. And so, here's a student who is trying to see herself in a story, which we try to promote for all students…why is that such a problem?”
“We read a wide array of stories all the time and it's never been an issue. Kirk Nichols, a kindergarten teacher and the student’s previous teacher, remembers asking himself, “What is going on here” when he learned the event was called off.
The Florida-based group threatened the school with legal action. A national anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Liberty Counsel, had other plans in mind for the school. The reading was in support of a transgender girl who was transitioning (a change to reflect the gender felt on the inside) in first grade. In December 2015, an elementary school in Mount Horeb, Wis., a town 25 miles outside of Madison, planned to read “I Am Jazz,” a story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transgender kids everywhere.
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