Now a malory towers tomboy was trans

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FFS!

You need two sets of two double brackets this , but only in the OP, after that they are automatically converted.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/25/malory-towers-enid-blytons-tomboy-bill-actually-transgender/

But yes, that story is ridiculous

“Bill is portrayed as a tomboy in the books but, thanks to the progress we have made as a society, people like Bill are now able to express their identity in other ways,”

Thanks to the progress we have made as a society, Bill shouldn't have to pretend to be a boy to do the things she wants to do. Being a girl shouldn't be as restrictive as it was in the 40s.

Quite, the insanity just keeps getting worse.

Julie Bindel is on it:

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/changing-enid-blytons-tomboy-non-binary-backward-step-girls/

"In today’s ‘woke’ parlance, non-binary, also known as genderqueer, is, according to Wikipedia, "a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍—identities that are outside the gender-binary".
I thought that's what feminism had fought for? To not have to acquiesce to sexist stereotypes because we are female? Should we not simply be encouraging girls to reject the rules imposed upon them as to how they should behave? As the director of the new production, Emma Rice, says in the Telegraph today: “feminism is at the heart of Malory Towers”.

Why then can we not just celebrate Bill as a girl who refuses to bow to convention?"

This further perpetuates the idea that to be a girl is to be only frilly and pink.
Bill was a tomboy, Bill was a girl. Many of the girls in MT were tomboys or into sport.
It’s so regressive to say a girl who is anything other than pink and a prim is A BOY.

What does this say to our daughters? You must live your life within the very narrow confines of what some prats have determined girlhood to be and if you dare step outside them then you must be a boy?
My rugby playing daughter is going to be very confused.

Enid Blyton was one of the worst things to ever happen to Malory Towers.
A slight spin on that now famous JK Rowling tweet from earlier this week.

Rebel girls, rebel.

FFS

No, girls not performing femininity are girls not performing femininity. Not men. There's a lot of us about. See George from the Famous Five -everything she ever says about 'wanting to be a boy' is just wanting to do things social boundaries discouraged for girls.

Liberation happened: women get to do anything they want. They don't have to turn in to men to do it. God this stupid, regressive crap gets so tedious.

Oh FUCK off

Well.. that's me scuppered.

Oh god, they're going to go after George next, aren't they?
Who knew Enid Blyton was so woke?

"The progress we have made as a society " my ARSE! What utter crap!

Tomboys were important role models in stories for girls, but now they're boys. This is so wrong.

I was a tomboy when I was young, and did say things like "I wish I was a boy". Did I literally mean it? Of course not!

They've tried transing Mulan - which misses the whole point of Mulan spectacularly. But then these are not people with the faintest understanding of women or girls.

I was musing through the Chalet School - Tom Gay you could argue had dysphoria but probably would have settled as a butch lesbian in adulthood. But where would you put the line because the Chalet girls aren't that bothered by performing femininity - really, few girls or women are. Are the ones with short hair climbing cliffs and trees and doing woodwork transworthy? The St Trinians girls robbed and hijacked trains as I remember, while blowing things up and brewing gin. Are they all boys really?

Of course the whole thing is perfectly academic anyway, as a biological female can adopt any subjective label and view of themselves they choose: they still remain, forever, an unchanged biological female. The only thing all biological females have in common IS their biology.

Surely the most valid interpretation is that of End Blyton, who was clear Bill was a girl?

Even leaving aside that absurdity has anyone told this scriptwriter that she is adapting a work of fiction not a biography? Only she seems to believe it's a real life that's up for reinterpretation.

I feel a little sick at this grovelling, pathetic, pawing at Pride.
It's so distasteful and needy. It is also absolutely nonsensical.

I can't even find the words to illustrate how fucking STRANGE it is.

^ Wrong thread, sorry!

but still, the same sentiment persists for those who can't fucking leave it alone and insist on this ridiculous post mortem transing of fictional characters. What's fucking wrong with them?

For fucks sake now I’ve heard it all

FFS

A tomboy is a valid identity. I was one.

Blimey! What a leap to make. And there was I happily picturing Bill and Clarissa in a settled lesbian relationship running their riding school.

Bill trans though? No....not convinced.

Why does she have to be trans? Why can’t she just be happy wearing what she wants and being herself?

If that choice is trans fair enough but I’m not certain she is.

I've noticed this seems to come up particularly when there is a girl or woman who is using a traditionally male name. Like Michael in Discovery.

Girls rebelling against restrictive gender roles are actually male. How progressive. It sounds like a trope from Medieval times.