They did a TV adaptation of Malory Towers a few years back didn't they? I only knew this because I went to Hartland Abbey while on holiday back in 2023 and they had signs about how it was filmed there. Why yes, it was indeed adapted for MODERN AUDIENCES.
They have been trying to trans George from The Famous Five for years. Because any girl who likes to climb trees and run around and complains at restrictive gender roles of the time MUST be trans, surely. Ironically enforcing the same strict gender roles that just a few years ago they were likely fulminating at what with "pink stinks" and all that. And as for her being "full of gunk," well, that just proves it, doesn't it? Doesn't it?
Oh. It meant something different in the 1940s.
(Though I do think she knew exactly what she was doing with fan and fool. Don't @ me.)