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From The Series "Transing the Dead": Louisa May Alcott

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nepeta · 21/04/2022 17:28

Peyton Thomas tells us on Twitter that the author of Little Women was transgender. twitter.com/peytonology/status/1516612189687324673

The current posthumous transitioning of many historical role models for women (Hathshepsut, Joan of Arc, Rosa Bonheur, Daphne du Maurier etc.) naturally follows once we adopt the gender identity ideology where 'woman' is re-defined as someone who is comfortable with the gender roles and norms the society she lives in has assigned the female sex.

So which famous women in history are we bog-standard women allowed to keep as role models under this new definition?

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nepeta · 21/04/2022 17:40

Agreed. And the discrimination against women was always based on them being biologically female and had nothing to do with whatever gender identity (or none) they might have had. Men of that era could possess as 'female souls' as they wished, and nobody took away their superior legal status or their free access to almost all professions etc.

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Kanaloa · 21/04/2022 17:39

Yeah saw it recently about The Famous Five. Think it requires a total overlooking of the reason why some fictional girls historically might have been attracted to tomboyish behaviour/presenting as a ‘boy.’ George says it in The Famous Five - she doesn’t want to stay in the camp with Anne making tea and folding the pyjamas. She wants to go and have fun, sail, and play etc. These types of characters are obviously a reaction to female restrictions and a longing for the freedom and opportunities men had at that time, not evidence for trans people historically.

tabbycatstripy · 21/04/2022 17:35

Eye roll was violent with this one.

Some women have always ‘identified with’ the male sex, presumably because there were things many members of the male sex had that they didn’t: freedom, choices, professionals, money, the vote.

It doesn’t mean they thought of themselves as literally being members of the opposite sex.

IsItShining · 21/04/2022 17:33

Gender is tosh, and Alcott was a woman and a female one at that. Let’s just ignore their pointless little games.

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