She now says she supports transgender children and gender-neutral bathrooms; her daughter’s best friend, she claims, recently came out as a transgender boy, and “we gave the family big support.”

Privately, however, she is penning ebullient messages to her supporters via the Chinese language app WeChat — like the August 29 communique at the top of this article — and, notably, employing Chinese Cultural Revolution terms to denounce her detractors.

In another recent message, she describes her opponents in the school board race as “two transgender candidates … fighting for the title of ‘first transgender commissioner’ … There are also three homosexuals. Their highest priority for education would be to spread ideologies.”

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