Similarly, I didn't think Matryona would be any sort of transgender person, because those kinds of stories aren't generally written.
I knew it wasn't going to be about a girl who didn't want to be feminine, not because there were any obvious cues that Matryona wasn't a girl, but because people don't write stories where being forced to be feminine even if you really don't want to be feminine is damaging to girls.
I'm also a little annoyed that I was able to immediately guess the twist from the first little bit of introduction, especially because that sort of very conveniently circumvents any potential prejudice within the audience? I know what it's like for parents to try to force their children to try to become the children the parents want instead of the children that they are, even when it's completely impossible (I'm disabled, and it's happened to me along those lines), but the logistics of this setup make no sense at all. Students who are legally male and WANT to dress femininely, whether they're transgender or just feminine, have difficulty enough being allowed to do so. It made even less sense that Matryona was somehow going to school. It made no sense that these people were allowed to adopt a child, because prospective adoptive parents are screened. This sort of thing HAS happened a few times, but in all of those cases I've heard of, the child has either been isolated from society, or society has condoned the child being treated this way.
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