Today, Feb. 27, thousands of parents, educators, elected officials and allies will join in solidarity with transgender and gender-expansive students by hosting school and community readings of “I Am Jazz,” a children’s book by transgender teen trailblazer Jazz Jennings, as well as additional titles. The fifth annual Jazz and Friends National Day of School and Community Readings is sponsored by the Welcoming Schools Program at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, and by the National Educational Association, the country’s largest professional employee organization, representing 3 million educators across the U.S. The Des Moines Public Library’s Franklin Avenue branch is among the host sites, with a reading scheduled today at 6:30 p.m..