Child of Former KKK leader and owner of the website Stormfront comes out as Trans

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R Derek Black, the child of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black and a onetime poster boy for the white supremacist movement, has quietly come out as transgender
Black, 35, was already a well-known figure by the age of 10, when they appeared on The Jenny Jones talk show alongside white power leaders from the notoriously racist and homophobic Westboro Baptist Church.

And as a boy, Black contributed to a kids' section of Stormfront.org - the neo-Nazi hate site run his by father.

But now, Black writes that attending the famously liberal New College in Sarasota, Florida from 2010 contributed to their 'emerging understanding of my gender identity' and disillusionment with the white supremacist movement.

'[New College's] culture and the people I met there helped me accept that I fit under the trans umbrella,' Black says.

Black reveals their ideological evolution continued when they started dating a Jewish woman, despite the fact that the Black family were 'some of the most famous antisemitic activists in the country.'

Through long, often challenging conversations with Allison Gornik - Black's now-wife - they started to take their first tentative steps away from the neo-Nazi movement. And in 2013, Black wrote a letter renouncing white nationalism.

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When it came to choosing a university, Black jokes that New College regularly ranked among Princeton Review's top ten for schools with the 'Most Liberal Students,' 'Most LGBT-Friendly,' 'Most Weed Friendly,' and 'Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians'.

After Black was admitted, they tried to keep their white supremacist background a secret, but it only took a semester before they were 'outed' on a college chat forum.

At the time, Black was attending a study abroad program in Germany and his godfather, the founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke came calling.

'David Duke drove up from his home in Austria to visit me for the day,' Black writes. 'I met him at a beer garden, and he gave me an impromptu tour of the highlights of the early Nazi movement.

Duke reassured his godchild that he, too, had been 'outed' at college

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Black's father - who served time in prison for plotting an invasion of the Caribbean island of Dominica in 1981 - still runs Stormfront.

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