white british trans woman with chronic pain
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I honestly don’t know if I could grow my audience by downplaying the forced fem aspects of Sisters of Dorley. A lot of people have said they hesitated for months before trying it because they don’t like those kinds of stories, but I’ve ALSO had readers who’ve come from the forced fem community (and I’ve made wonderful friends!).
And, in the end, there IS forced fem in the story. Just putting twenty years of trans fem trauma into it doesn’t change that. The lads really do get into situations.
When I first stumbled across Dorley it was after finishing Show Girl on Scribblehub. And seeing that it was a force fem story really made me hesitate. Force fem fiction were some of the first trans (or trans adjacent)…anything I ever found. At an age that was probably far too young to be reading that content! Thus there is a lot of residual trauma and I think shame for having read and eventually found myself through that type of content. But I loved your writing in Show Girl and I just wanted more. So I gave it a shot. And now, a year later I’m completely Dorleypilled! I think Sisters of Dorley has helped me in some way process and move on from that lingering shame I’ve felt all these years. Which is great and healthy! And I think downplaying the force fem would maybe broaden the audience of Dorley, sure—but at this point it feels so integral to the story. Sisters of Dorley is a subversion of force fem to a point that I feel it’s almost reinvented a new type of force fem fiction. And it’s so bloody good! I’ve had these thoughts bouncing around in my head for a while and I think this is a good place to put them. Alyson thank you for the story and keep feminizing the lads!
this definitely puts into words some of the thoughts I've had. Reclaimed forcefem, as a way of referring to it I suppose?
