A recent loud complaint about a gender identity book for children caused the Murfreesboro City School Board to take a recent meeting recess.
The picture book, “It Feels Good to Be Yourself,” by writer Theresa Thorn and illustrator Noah Grigni “introduces the concept of gender identity to the youngest reader, according to a description from an Amazon website.
John Amanchukwu signed up to speak during public comments Tuesday, Dec. 10, about “October revenue,” following the board’s requirement that public comments only be about action agenda items.
Amanchukwu spoke, as recorded on Murfreesboro CityTV , with a packed audience that included supporters, including Rutherford County Board of Education member Caleb Tidwell.
“And how we use these funds matters because we want to put the best things before children,” said Amanchukwu, who held up the book in question and began to read. “When you open the book it says, ‘Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both. Neither are somewhere in between.'”