In Akron, the incumbent school board president criticized for sharing “transgender to transformed” and other incendiary LGBTQ+ commentary on Facebook lost re-election last week.

So did the incumbent board president of a rural district in Allen County, a conservative stronghold in central-northwest Ohio, after first winning office two years ago on a promise to crackdown on bathroom assignments of transgender students.

Voters levied the same result in Delaware County, in a wealthy suburb of Columbus, where several school board members behind a district-wide banning of LGBTQ+ flags lost their re-election bids.

During President Joe Biden’s administration, a backlash to perceived encroachment of social liberalism into school curricula powered a sweep of social conservative candidates into ostensibly non-partisan school board seats. Organizations, such as Moms 4 Liberty, organized candidates on platforms opposing legal and practical acceptance of transgender students and “critical race theory.”