Hi. I saw your post about George from the Famous Five. While George can be read as a trans man, Bill Robinson from Malory Towers, despite her name preference, is quite happily a tomboy girl, i feel.
I mean, I have no idea what Malory Towers is, so I’ll take your word for it
in the case of George, however (and I’m using they pronouns for them bc while I am still used to using she/her pronouns since that is what is used for George in the books, it seems hypocritical of me to talk about how I consider a character trans and then call them by the wrong pronouns, so I’m going middle ground for the moment)
George:
- hates being called by their full, girly name
- shows a disdain for girly things
- is completely masculine in how they present
- requests to be called by the masculine title ‘Master George’ as opposed to ‘Miss George’ or god forbid ‘Miss Georgina’
- is over the moon when mistaken for a boy
- amidst all of this, refuses to tell lies because they think that it is cowardly
- although George never mentions having an issue with she/her pronouns as far as I can recall, that’s likely down to the era/George not realising that’s a proper option and the fact that Blyton was a massive conservative and so while the trans boy interpretation might be an obvious read, it definitely wasn’t the intention (George is based of Blyton herself), but also, like, fuck the intentions of conservative authors regard, we’re gonna rub our queer hands all over this
In summary: while the original version is up for debate in terms of how George would have viewed themself in the time that they lived, a modern version of George Kirrin would be a trans boy who would be ready to full on fight anyone who called him a girl or was an ass about refusing to use the right pronouns (and Anne and the other boys would be the first to be in his corner, with Anne refusing to let George get lumped in with her and Julian and Dick - who would probably have to be renamed Rick bc, uh, language development - always being like ‘yes all of us boys together’)
