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Wisconsin School Nixes Reading of Book About Transgender Kid

By Eowyn @DrEowyn

There is no scientific basis for transgender. But that doesn’t deter the proggies from pushing their agenda.

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Parents at a Wisconsin school were informed that a book, I Am Jazz, would be read and discussed because the school has a student who identifies as a girl but was born with male anatomy.

The principal, Rachael Johnson, of Mount Horeb Primary Center sent a letter that explained the following: “We believe all students deserve respect and support regardless of their gender identity and expression, and the best way to foster that respect and support is through educating students about the issue of being transgender.” 

Concerned parents contacted The Florida-based Liberty Counsel group and they threatened to sue, saying the group contended that reading the book would violate parental rights. The school then cancelled the planned reading of the book.

After cancelling the book reading, the district said it seeks to address the needs of the individual student, it will be mindful of the needs of other students and families. It also said families whose children may be affected will be notified of future actions, and the goal is to protect all students from bullying so they can learn together in a safe environment.

Of course this led to an outcry of bigotry and the standard narrative of “the right-wing anti-LGBT group” scaring a Wisconsin school district out of trying to help its elementary students better understand the experience.

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If the school really wanted to educate students about the issue of being transgender and better understand the experience while learning together in a safe environment, they would tell them the truth (excerpts from Dr. Eowyn’s June 2015 post):

  • The transgendered person’s disorder is in the person’s “assumption” that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature.
  • The so-called ‘confusion’ about sexuality that a teenager or adult has is purely psychological.
  • A 2011 study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people.
  • The study showed that about 10 years after the surgery, transgendered people began to have increased mental difficulties.
  • As transgendered people progressed through life, their suicide mortality rose almost 20 times above the comparable nontransgender population.
  • Although the surgery is called “gender reassignment,” the surgery does no such thing.
  • Dr. McHugh notes that studies from Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”

But the truth would get in the way of the agenda.

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