Gender

One of the more controversial books that is read in high school English class is Harper Lee's, "To Kill A Mockingbird". The uproar is because "nigger" is used even though it was a part of the vernacular at the time. What may turn out to be even more controversial is the little girl Scout who is one of the main characters. She is a regular tom boy. She gets in fights in school and beats up other boys. She wants to hang around with her older brother and refuses to wear a dress. Think about that. In today's world would she be a candidate for a gender change. Maybe if they had started to change her over to a boy when she was little she might have had a happier life. Of course this is during the depression and if her dad Atticus had even heard of such nonsense he would have had a fit.