The changing interpretation of Bulkley’s life highlights the malign consequences of the new ideology for the still-unfinished fight for equality for women. Within that ideology, women who aspire to agency and power no longer add weight to arguments for equal rights and freedoms, but instead become men. Women are then the type of people who are content with supporting roles. In the earlier version, a resourceful woman challenged the oppression of her sex; in the new one a transman opts out of that oppression while leaving it untouched.
