The Legend of a Village Schoolteacher

Wang Xiaole, a boy from a poor family, wore his older sister’s clothes as a child. His mother dressed him as a girl while he was growing up, then changed him back to a boy when he reached middle school. After graduating from middle school, Wang Xiaole was admitted to the local teachers’ college. Only when he reported for enrollment did he learn that he had been accepted into the preschool education program. Out of the fifty new students in his class, he was the only boy. To keep the class looking neat and orderly, the teacher made him wear the girls’ uniform. From then on, he completed his teacher training as a girl. When Wang Xiaole graduated, he discovered that his diploma listed his sex as female, as did his household registration transfer certificate. He had already spent three years at school living as a girl and had grown accustomed to it, so he reported to an elementary school in the mountains as a woman. He became a village schoolteacher…