Kids publisher Scholastic launches massive promo of ‘trans’ book for grade 3s
NEW YORK CITY – The world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books is heavily promoting a pro-transgender book designed for students as young as third grade. The Scholastic Corporation has sent school teachers and librarians 10,000 copies of the book, entitled George , which was written by self-described "queer activist" Alex Gino. In the children's book , Gino tells a story of a 10-year-old boy who doesn't feel like a boy, so he tells people he's really "Melissa." Scholastic's website says the target audience for the transgender book is elementary children from 3rd to 7th grade. Gino creates a sympathetic conflict to draw the young reader in by telling of a class play on Charlotte's Web . The book reads, "George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she [meaning George] can't even try out for the part...because she [George] is a boy." NPR, in an interview wi