--- description: The book “I Am Jazz” is based on the real life of transgender teenager Jazz Jennings title: Wisconsin School Cancels Book Reading About Transgender Teen After Lawsuit Threat image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa03f12388b0b3a9/698872f5e20a8726e6a8e68d/jazz-jennings.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Education](/tag/education/) ## Education Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Wisconsin School Cancels Book Reading About Transgender Teen After Lawsuit Threat by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 28, 2015 6:25 PM CUT  Activist Jazz Jennings in New York City on March 23, 2015. Activist Jazz Jennings in New York City on March 23, 2015.Noam Galai—Getty Images by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 28, 2015 6:25 PM CUT A Wisconsin elementary school has cancelled plans to read a book about a transgender girl after it was [threatened with a lawsuit.](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/wisconsin-school-nixes-reading-book-transgender-kid-35462099 "undefined") The Mount Horeb Primary Center had planned to read and discuss the book “I Am Jazz,” a children’s book based on the real life of the transgender teenager Jazz Jennings, the Associated Press reports. However, the Liberty Counsel, a Florida nonprofit, [threatened to sue](https://lc.org/PDFs/Attachments2PRsLAs/2015/112315LettertoMHASD.pdf "undefined") the school on behalf of “concerned parents” who did not want their children reading the book. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Liberty Counsel as a hate group with anti-LGBT views. On Wednesday, the school district said it would no longer go through with the reading of “I Am Jazz.” The district said it would give the Board of Education the opportunity to address the situation. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4128498/wisconsin-school-cancels-transgender-book-lawsuit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4128498/wisconsin-school-cancels-transgender-book-lawsuit/"},"headline":"Wisconsin School Cancels Book Reading About Transgender Teen After Lawsuit Threat","datePublished":"2015-11-28T18:25:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:56:26.797Z","description":"The book “I Am Jazz” is based on the real life of transgender teenager Jazz Jennings","url":"https://time.com/4128498/wisconsin-school-cancels-transgender-book-lawsuit/","keywords":["Education","Transgender","Wisconsin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa03f12388b0b3a9/698872f5e20a8726e6a8e68d/jazz-jennings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa03f12388b0b3a9/698872f5e20a8726e6a8e68d/jazz-jennings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Ackerman Institute's Gender & Family Project's \"A Night of a Thousand Genders\"","caption":"The Ackerman Institute's Gender & Family Project's \"A Night of a Thousand Genders\"","creditText":"Noam Galai—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4128498/wisconsin-school-cancels-transgender-book-lawsuit/","name":"Wisconsin School Cancels Book Reading About Transgender Teen After Lawsuit Threat"}}]}] ```