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 …
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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
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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
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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)
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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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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).
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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
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