Top Kansas City officials seem to have gone out of their way to choose a children’s gender-transition book to read to kids on a video for National Reading Day. Mayor Quinton Lucas, City Manager Brian Platt, and several council members took turns reading the children’s picture book Introducing Teddy: a gentle story about gender and friendship. The book cleverly uses an inanimate object, a teddy bear, to introduce children to the idea of changing genders, and apparently to induce them to accept it