This is a tremendously presumptuous thing to do, especially since many of these authors obviously had the opportunity to do this in their lifetime and never did (George Eliot kept writing as George Eliot long after she was outed, Middlemarch was published 14 years later)https://twitter.com/Fem_Scribblers/status/1293488874036047872 …
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That's why it seems to me it's best to just respect their wishes I won't say the impulse to do this is necessarily coming from a TERFy place but you'll notice all the people angrily defending it on Twitter are TERFs, who are strongly invested in one particular narrative
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The idea that "genderbending" can only be something oppressive forced on people by patriarchy and to say that there's anything inherently valuable or real about it is offensive (i.e. being "gender critical")
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