MOUNT HOREB, Wis. – On Friday Nov. 19, parents of first, second and third-graders in the Mount Horeb school district were sent a letter, informing them that their children would be read the book “I Am Jazz” on Monday Nov. 23, and would participate in a discussion of the book afterward.

The book, written for children, is focused on the life of transgendered teen Jazz Jennings.

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School officials noted that they had been working with the family of one transgendered student. The purpose of the reading, they claimed, was to promote diversity and a “safe and nurturing environment” for all students.

The letter instructed parents to contact the school if they had any objections and wanted their child excused from the event. But that offer only came with with one business day’s notice, the letter said.

One concerned parent contacted the The Liberty Counsel, a Florida non-profit, which in turn sent a letter to the president of the Mount Horeb school board, threatening a federal lawsuit if the book reading went forward.

School administrators heeded that warning.

In a statement they said they had “chosen not to proceed as originally planned and allow the Board of Education the opportunity to review the needs of all involved, and address a situation for which the District has no current policy.”

The Liberty Counsel is concerned about the rights of the majority of students and their parents, who may be uncomfortable with the idea of teaching kids that transgender people are living normal and acceptable lives.

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The letter from the Liberty Counsel to Mount Horeb school board President Mary Seidl accused the district of purposefully giving parents limited warning about the reading, so they would have little chance to respond:

“The (school district letter to parents) was sent with one business day notice and appears designed to catch parents off-guard, to prevent them from opting their children out of this reading and subsequent discussion. I hereby request the cancellation of this Monday’s planned reading and discussion, to prevent parental rights violations.”

The letter outlined some of those perceived violations, including “promoting non-factual, radical, and controversial assumptions about gender, which is neither the right nor the business of government schools to do.”

It also accused the school district of “substituting the beliefs of the principal, school psychologist, and school counselor for those of parents,” and “necessitating many parents teaching their children about a psychological and moral disorder about which they believe their children are too young to learn.”

The reading event would have had the effect of “confusing many children” and “disturbing children who will now falsely believe that one can choose one’s own gender,” the letter said.

The letter outlined legal arguments against the reading of the book and the subsequent discussion, claiming they would “violate parental constitutional rights to direct the upbringing of their children.”

It also questioned the basis of the transgender argument by noting that, “There is no credible medical authority establishing the proposition that biological sex can be changed, or that ‘mind over matter’ is controlling, in areas of identity.

The letter noted that “the former Chief Psychiatrist for Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Paul McHugh, wrote in a June 12, 2014 Wall Street Journal op-ed that ‘policymakers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered’  by not treating transgender ‘confusion … as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.’

“While students suffering from gender confusion should be treated with kindness and respect, schools should not by their policies or practices attempt to coerce other students and teachers into participating into what amounts to a harmful delusion.”