Two Central Florida school districts may pull from their shelves a memoir by a transgender YouTuber after state leaders threatened the Hillsborough County school district for having the same book on some of its campuses.

“Trans Mission, My Quest To A Beard” by Alex Bertie, has been the target of online criticism by Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas and Attorney General James Uthmeier.

Orange County Public Schools has four copies of the book in four different high schools. The book is now under review by a committee of educators but is still in the four schools’ libraries, district spokesperson Michael Ollendorff said. Only one student has checked the book out since 2021, he added.

Two copies of the book in Lake County high schools have been pulled off the shelves for review, d

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