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Writer asks if 'Little Women' author Louisa May Alcott identified as a man

Back when this editor was a teen, there were two kinds of trans: there were transvestites, who were men who dressed in women’s clothing for a sexual thrill, and there were transexuals, who had undergone surgery to become the opposite sex. One of the most woke shows around, “M*A*S*H”, had a guy who cross-dressed to prove he was too crazy to serve in the armed forces — now the Marines are doing away with “sir” and “ma’am” to avoid misgendering officers.

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The New York Times notes that the word “transgender” didn’t exist when Louisa May Alcott wrote “Little Women,” but if it had, wouldn’t have been the proper word to describe her … um, him?

Author Peyton Thomas writes:

It’s a name that she didn’t use all that often in her personal life. 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?

I became curious about this question while conducting archival research for my next novel, a contemporary interpretation of “Little Women.” As I pored over letters, journals and personal papers, I found evidence that Alcott thought of herself as more of a man than a woman — someone, as she wrote, in one letter to Whitman, “with a boy’s spirit” under her “bib & tucker.”

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Buried lede: Thomas is writing a “contemporary interpretation” of “Little Women.” Can’t wait not to read that.

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This editor’s wife was preparing her dissertation for her Ph.D. in literature, but her sponsor rejected her reading list because it didn’t have enough “feminists” on it reinterpreting everything through the lens of third-wave feminism and assuming all 18th-century women authors were lesbians. She told them to shove it and dropped out.

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