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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 2

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Devon Price

      Yeah this is coming down the pike too The logical next step after conversion therapy is corrective rape You see the seeds of it planted in TERF narratives like "I grew out of being a tomboy when I started dating" and "I learned how wonderful a female body is through pregnancy"https://twitter.com/drdevonprice/status/1377629446841237508 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Devon Price @drdevonprice
      Noticing TERF detransitioners talking amongst themselves lately about how getting pregnant helped w their gender dysphoria. Which adds a new sinister layer to their resistance to young trans people getting blockers & their emphasis on "alternate treatments" for transness
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    2. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      There was an academic paper some years back on what the author called "Caddy Woodlawn syndrome" -- the storyline, extremely common in middle grade books with girl protagonists, where the girl is a tomboy and "runs wild" and hates everything girly, but

      2 replies 4 retweets 33 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer

      The novel Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero -- a fun "gritty reboot" mashup of Scooby-Doo and the Famous Five -- had one of its mission statements be imagining a future for George from the Famous Five where she *doesn't* go Carrie Woodlawn

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 3
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NaomiKritzer

      The author said "It was very important to me that there be a story where she ended up not-quite-cis and not-quite-a-woman" (in the novel she considered transitioning but settled on being a genderqueer butch lesbian)

      1 reply 2 retweets 15 likes
    5. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      One of the fantastic things about being able to name tropes like this is that it makes it easier to consciously subvert them. There's an excellent middle-grade historical fiction book called "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate."

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
    6. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer @arthur_affect

      Calpurnia is fascinated by science, and is mentored by her grandfather, an amateur scientist. At some point her mother drags her into the house and starts making her learn the necessary womanly skills -- cooking, knitting.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer @arthur_affect

      Calpurnia acquiesces, and becomes competent at the tasks because she's forced to learn them, but finds them completely unsatisfying, and continues to bail at every opportunity.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    8. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer @arthur_affect

      I'll note that there was a stage production of "Little Women" at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis a few years ago in which Jo March is presented as a trans boy. They cast a trans actor.

      1 reply 3 retweets 18 likes
    9. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer @arthur_affect

      And they added NOTHING. Every single "oh wow yeah that's ... that's totally a little trans boy talking in 1865" moment is IN THE BOOK, VERBATIM. They just took out the assumption that Jo WAS NOT trans.

      1 reply 2 retweets 19 likes
    10. Naomi Kritzer‏ @NaomiKritzer Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer @arthur_affect

      Critically, they ended the story before the marriage plotline (as Louisa May Alcott wanted to, IIRC -- I think her editor made her put it in.)

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 3
      Replying to @NaomiKritzer

      I do remember this, and the TERFs were pissed Same with an actual stage adaptation of The Famous Five where George was played by a non-binary actor

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        2. Farah Mendlesohn‏ @effjayem Apr 3
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NaomiKritzer

          There is a specific Famous Five in which Blyton makes it clear George doesn't want to do boy things, George wants to *be* a boy. (For a very conservative writer there are a number of quite radical books).

          2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
        3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof Apr 3
          Replying to @effjayem @arthur_affect @NaomiKritzer

          yeah once you accept the idea that transness isn't a recent invention but rather a human universal, a lot of historical gender play/ anxiety starts to hit real different

          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
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