The former poster child for white nationalism has quietly come out as transgender in their debut book — in which they reminisced about being mistaken for a girl while working with their father’s KKK chapter.

R Derek Black revealed in the epilogue of their new memoir, “The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism,” that they identified as LGBTQ and used they/ them pronouns, according to an excerpt obtained by the Daily Mail.

Black, 35, became famous in 1999 at the age of 10, when they appeared on salacious daytime talk program “The Jenny Jones Show” to peddle the backward beliefs of their father, Klu Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Don Black and godfather, former Grand Wizard David Duke.

It wasn’t until they attended the famously progressive New College in Sarasota, Florida, in 2010 that they came to terms with their “emerging understanding of my gender identity” and disillusionment with the white supremacist movement.

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