One of the funniest onf these "Beat it to death with the PC stick" re-writes was when the Enid Blyton Famous Five books were dragged into the 21st century with

One of the funniest onf these "Beat it to death with the PC stick" re-writes was when the Enid Blyton Famous Five books were dragged into the 21st century with "Famous 5 on the case" [0] featuring the children of the original Famous Five. This featured such mind-boggling concepts as: >Jo Misra (short for Jyothi, a Hindi word meaning light.) She is a 12-year-old daughter of George Kirrin, and like her mother before her is a tomboy... Given that everyone who ever read the Famous five realised in later life that "George[ina]" Kirrin was obviously going to grow up er... "not that interested in men", shall we say?... the fact she had a mixed-race daughter with an Indian bloke, is quite a surprise. Ironically, the original books have now leap-frogged the excerable rewrite in PC box-ticking, as the original George character can now be viewed as being a very early positvely portrayed "trans" character: ---- “I say! Are you Georgina?” The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy’s. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father’s. “No,” she said. “I’m not Georgina.” “Oh!” said Anne, in surprise. “Then who are you?” “I’m George,” said the girl. “I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won’t be. I don’t like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You’re to call me George. Then I’ll speak to you. But I shan’t if you don’t.” ---- [From "Five on a Treasure Island"] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_5:_On_the_Case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_5:_On_the_Case