Texas school calls in counselors after teacher reads book about transgender boy TODAY 3/12/2021 Lisa Tolin
A teacher in Austin, Texas, came under fire for reading a children s book about a transgender boy to her fourth grade class, prompting the district to call the book inappropriate and offer counseling to students who listened.
Transgender allies defended the teacher and the book, Call Me Max, by Stonewall Award-winning author Kyle Lukoff. It features a transgender child explaining his identity, and is aimed at children in early elementary school.
Several parents wrote letters complaining to Forest Trail Elementary, with some calling for the teacher to be fired. In response, Eanes Independent School District s chief learning officer, Susan Fambrough, explained in an email to parents that Call Me Max had been included on a list of diverse books circulated among teachers but was not appropriate to be read aloud to an entire elementary-age class.