Alex Gino’s ‘George’, later renamed ‘Melissa’, is available to students as young as 12 with 11 copies available in Wisconsin Hills and Pilgrim Park Middle School libraries.  An alarming quote from this book: “So you’re, like, transgender or something?…Did you know you can take hormones so that your body, you know, doesn’t go all manlike?” (page 62).

Katie Rain Hill’s Rethinking Normal is available in both Brookfield Central and Brookfield East libraries and discuss sex before and after transgender vaginoplasty, hormone therapy, different types of gender mutilation surgeries, transgender porn stars, body dysmorphia, and suicide. Alarming quotes include: “Being on hormones for the first time was exhilarating”, “Some trans men need to have double mastectomies in order to have a flat chest,” and “I can get bottom surgery…I’ll do it. I’ll do it for you.”

The presence of these books raises concerns about the violation of parental authority and the promotion of potentially harmful ideologies to local students. 

This situation has come to light following President Trump’s Executive Order on January 29, 2025, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which aims to prevent the imprinting of harmful ideologies on children and protect parental rights. The order emphasizes that steering students toward surgical and chemical mutilation without parental consent violates anti-discrimination civil rights laws and usurps basic parental authority.

The Elmbrook School board policy 6144 states that open discussion of controversial issues shall be included as part of the curriculum. However, concerned taxpayers argue that the explicit nature of the content in these library books goes beyond open discussion and actively promotes a harmful ideology.