A Florida mom is trying to get “I Am Billie Jean King” banned in elementary schools

The cover of I Am Billie Jean King.
Photo: Courtesy of Penguin Random House

A school district in Florida is reviewing I Am Billie Jean King, a children’s biography of the out tennis legend, after a parent filed a complaint objecting to its LGBTQ+ content.

In her formal complaint, filed on April 25 to Leon County Schools, Katie Leon — a parent of a child who attended Hawks Rise Elementary School in Tallahassee, Florida — wrote that she objects “to material that discusses being gay and what it means to be gay” and that she did not think the material was “suitable for elementary students.”

According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Leon’s then-second-grade daughter brought the book home from the school library where, Leon wrote in her complaint, it was deemed appropriate for her daughter’s reading level. Written by author Brad Meltzer as part of the series “Ordinary People Change the World,” I Am Billie Jean King is intended for children ages 5–9 years old, according to its publisher Penguin Random House.

Leon took issue with a single page of the 40-page illustrated book, which describes…

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