• An opinion editorial published by the New York Times makes the startling claim that Little Women author Louisa May Alcott may have been transgender or “non-binary.”
• “She may not have known the word “transgender”, but she certainly knew the feeling it describes,” writes trans author Peyton Thomas of Alcott’s written desire “to be a man” and her description of herself as born “with a boy’s nature, a boy’s spirit and a boy’s wrath.”
• However, some historians disagree, conflating her words as more of a desire to achieve the status and respect given to men of the time than as a desire to actually change her sex.

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