TW nominated for the womens prize for fiction

[Kit19]

for fucks fucking sake!

"Peters’ longlisting comes after organisers clarified in 2020 that it was open to any “cis woman, a transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex”. “It’s a prize for women, and trans women are women, so …” said chair of judges and author Bernardine Evaristo."

I continue to be embarrassed by the successful supposedly clever women who continue to throw other women under the bus

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/10/first-trans-woman-makes-womens-prize-longlist-alongside-dawn-french-and-ali-smith

Why not transmen?

I wonder who was 17th on the list? Do you think we could find out?

organisers clarified in 2020 that it was open to any “cis woman, a transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex”

Don't these people have any self-respect?

Hopefully she'll win. And hopefully next year the entire list will be TW.

And then finally the folk who don't think there's an issue with self ID/TWAW ideology will wake the fuck up.

So based on that "of the female sex", a transman could win the women's prize and the men's prize (if there is/was one)? A transman and a transwoman could both be competing for the women's prize? How does that work????

Torrey Peter's previous book, The Masker, has the blurb:
'After a party on the Las Vegas Strip, a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of forced feminization at the hands of a mysterious handsome man, or the difficult reality of transition with the help of a sisterly transsexual woman.'

Described as 'a dark new Novella about online sissy culture, forced-femme erotica, female-masking, internalized transmisogyny, and crossdressing.'

www.goodreads.com/book/show/30245843-the-masker

The contenders for the Women's Prize for Fiction was just discussed on Radio 4 Front Row. It was made clear that Torrey Peters is a transwoman and Peters' book Detransition, Baby was described as a strong contender.

internet fantasy of forced feminization

Really?
Who is the sponsor?

They'd be better off scrapping the gendered prizes.

Screenshots from Detransition, Baby were floating around twitter a few months back. I had no idea it was supposed to be Women's Prize level of fiction. I rather assumed it was the equivalent of the "Having my Werewolf Lover's Baby" (of which rot there is plenty on kindle) genre, except concerning trans life. I thought the people sharing screenshots were over-reacting, tbh. If there is a market for dinosaur erotica, why shouldn't trans authors write for trans readers, I said.

But now I may be a tad alarmed.

@BitMuch

Torrey Peter's previous book, The Masker, has the blurb: 'After a party on the Las Vegas Strip, a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of forced feminization at the hands of a mysterious handsome man, or the difficult reality of transition with the help of a sisterly transsexual woman.'

Described as 'a dark new Novella about online sissy culture, forced-femme erotica, female-masking, internalized transmisogyny, and crossdressing.'

www.goodreads.com/book/show/30245843-the-masker

The contenders for the Women's Prize for Fiction was just discussed on Radio 4 Front Row. It was made clear that Torrey Peters is a transwoman and Peters' book Detransition, Baby was described as a strong contender.

Well this almost sounds like... but never mind.

Liquorishtoffee

Why not transmen?

Ah... we all know why - same reason the woman who was 17th on the list doesn’t count.

Funny how there are so many ways to work out the binary of adults.

I really want to know who would have been on that liat if Peters wasn't eligible.

That prize exists because women face prejudice in the publishing world.

The question is whether Peters would have faced sexism as a transwoman.

Even if so, it's still a dubious move.

This is a UK prize? Is Peters 'legally defined' as a Woman according to UK law?

The Women's Prize was established in response to the Booker failing to shortlist a single female writer in 1991.

a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of forced feminization at the hands of a mysterious handsome man

Nothing to do with identifying with stereotypes of the submissive, inferior sex then, not at all. Move along.

Judges will now narrow the selection to a shortlist of six books, to be announced on 28 April.

The winner of this year’s award will be revealed on 7 July during an awards ceremony in London. She will receive a £30,000 ($41,000) cheque and a limited edition bronze figurine.

That's a lot of money, on top of the increased sales that come with being nominated for the prize.

Right. Wild idea here, but how about someone creates a new prize for trans writers and endows it with £30,000 prize-money? Stonewall could sponsor it!

'After a party on the Las Vegas Strip, a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of forced feminization at the hands of a mysterious handsome man, or the difficult reality of transition with the help of a sisterly transsexual woman.'

Described as 'a dark new Novella about online sissy culture, forced-femme erotica, female-masking, internalized transmisogyny, and crossdressing.'

What does this have to do with women? Also it sounds shit.

I would be very interested to know what the merits of Peter's latest novel are, other than Evaristo being tediously in thrall to TWAW

I know, it is terribly unfair. It reminds me of the winner of womens cricket player of the year a couple of years ago; www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/dont-speak-for-me-or-my-ovaries-215668/
:(

This is incredibly disappointing in a prize that was set up to address the lack of women being critically acclaimed, after the Booker short list of 1991 contained no women.

The hypocrisy is breath taking. A woman has missed out so you could flash you’re woke credentials by including someone male. How date you talk about women being silenced