Brendan Halpin
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Actually, aaaarrrrrghhhhh is more accurate.
This story is entirely ripped from the headlines and it's very exploitative. As other reviewers have pointed out, they take Constance McMillen's life and turn it into a life lesson for a fictional entitled straight male baseball star.
This hurts the worst. It's not the author(s) subtly addressing what it's like to be a gender variant teenage girl, it's just them being utterly ignorant about what it's like to be a gender variant teenage girl. They wanted the story about Tessa's tux, but they didn't want to have to sympathetically write an (icky, ugly, mannish) butch lesbian---who would want to read about someone like that?
Memo for straight people: The girls who dress up their tuxes like Vogue models with strappy heels and a cute rhinestone clutch are not the ones whose photos get banned from the yearbook.
Straight people need to be stopped.… (meer)