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God, Gideon Nav is a butch woman in a sci-fi/fantasy story who’s allowed to just be butch! She wasn’t the only girl raised with 8 brothers, she wasn’t “made that way” in response to some horrible trauma, she’s not disguising herself as a man to join some army or exclusive group while yearning for the day she can revert to feminine presentation, she’s just a woman who is masculine presenting. And yes, many of her interests and goals are based on physical strength, but like…the book doesn’t make it weird, yaknow? And all of this is made more important by her specifically being a mixed race butch woman of color! We really need to appreciate that more