Nothing like the end-of-the-year to ramp up the silly season. Even the New York Slimes Opinion Section weighs in with a claim that the author of Little Women was really trans.

The word “transgender” did not exist during the life of ‘Little Women’ author Louisa May Alcott. But @peytonology asks whether it might be the best word to capture the experience of an author who wrote about having a “boy’s spirit” and a “man’s soul.” https://t.co/7728p9aAv2

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) December 24, 2022

Le sigh.

To family and friends, she was Lou, Lu or Louy. She wrote of herself as the “papa” or “father” of her young nephews. Her father, Bronson, once called Alcott his “only son.” In letters to her close friend Alfie Whitman, Alcott called herself “a man of all work” and “a gentleman at large.”

All this leads me to wonder: Is Alcott best understood as a trans man?

Oh, dear. Talk about questions … I have many about this author who reads about family nicknames in the latter 1800’s through the radical-sex-obsessed-trans-cult lens of 2022 and pretends s/he is going to draw any other conclusion than Alcott was really really, truly truly a [drum-roll, please] Trans Man.

we must base our understanding of Alcott’s identity on her writing. “I long to be a man,” she wrote in one journal entry. “I was born with a boy’s nature,” she said in that letter to Whitman, and “a boy’s spirit” and “a boy’s wrath.” As a child, she didn’t “care much for girls’ things.” Recall that as an adult, just a few years from death, she saw herself as “a man’s soul, put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body.” Why not take Lou at his word?

Let’s take LOUISA for a woman who pushed the boundaries of what was 19th century society’s expectations of girls and women.

And let’s start with the universal truth that through almost all human history most girls have spent a good deal of time envying boys because of our perception that boys are granted far greater freedom to indulge in exciting and adventurous pastimes and behaviors. And one of the ways of describing that envy is the sighing wish “I wish I was born a boy.”

There is, too, a percentage of tomboys who are actually wrestling with same-sex attraction. That could also explain this quote from Alcott:

“I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man’s soul put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body…. because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.”

And while Alcott did have a documented romance with a young man when living in Europe it is certainly possible she was a lesbian. However Alcott herself claimed spinsterhood in pursuit of her passion of authorship in a time where a married woman’s life was dominated by children and family and there was little time left for other pursuits unrelated to a woman’s dominate role.

And make no mistake, the life of husbands was as consumed with survival as wives. Too many people like trans, and trans-obsessed, Peyton have little concept of how radically easy the lives of people in modern Western nations are today compared to even 100 years ago, let alone almost 200.

And while Alcott yearned for the life of the mind … a life she believed restricted to men … Western modernity has allowed both sexes to pursue where their talents and skills will take them. Unfortunately, instead of celebrating the opportunities for women and men such freedom grants them, the raging transcult has been busy erecting new, strict gender lanes and erasing the womanhood of past women who blurred those lanes in the first place.

Peyton’s MiniTrue stylings are misogynist. Alcott was a woman who wrote eloquently about the real lives and struggles of girls. And while set in an era a great more desperate and trying than most of us can imagine, there is a universality to the characters she created that continue to resonate with readers today.

Peyton and the rest of the Transcult ilk want to erase that. The cult is combing history for any woman or girl who defied the convention of their era and kidnapping them to their cause. They want tomboy girls and effeminate boys medically captured and made into, not just simulacrums of the opposite sex, but to reject any internal desire to choose any lifestyle that dare be traditional. The destruction of our daughters is real.

This must be summarily rejected for the #womanface and #womanhate it truly is. Peyton Thomas can go to hell.

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