According to Clarke's initial note, the withdrawal was made at the author's request.
The editor of Clarkesworld, Neil Clarke, removed the story from the online magazine's website a few days later.
These readers objected to the use of an offensive meme as the title, and suspected that the story agreed with the meme's transphobia, or was an exercise in trolling. But there were also many loud detractors, many of whom were social justice activists and queer people. Many readers appreciated the story, including the authors Carmen Maria Machado and Chuck Tingle. The story provoked "vehement" responses, according to Wired. The accompanying biographical note read: "Isabel Fall was born in 1988". Isabel Fall's story of the same title appeared on 1 January 2020 in the January issue (no. The phrase "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" is a transphobic Internet meme, typically used, according to The Guardian, "to parody the evolving gender spectrum." The phrase originated as a copypasta on the Internet forum Reddit, which spread to other forums such as 4chan, where it was used (peaking in 2015) to mock transgender people. As they fly home, Barb consoles Axis, who struggles with their reassigned gender, considering that Axis' uncertainty and defiance of their assignment may reflect a "new queerness" as necessary as intentional instability is to combat aircraft. The story interlaces scenes from the war, in which Barb and the gunner Axis bomb a high school and escape from an enemy aircraft, with recollections of Barb's previous life as a woman, and reflections about her altered sexuality: the acts of flying, of controlled violence, are now also sexual acts between Barb and Axis. As a result, warfare is now part of Barb's gender role, much as wearing skirts would be part of a woman's. Army neuromedically reassigned Barb's gender identity to "attack helicopter" to make Barb a better helicopter pilot. The story is told from the perspective of Barb (a call sign, not "Barbara"), formerly called Seo Ji Hee. Some time in the near future, the United States is fighting a war against the "Pear Mesa Budget Committee", a local AI government that emerged from an environmental and medical catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. The helicopter flown by the protagonist is the fictional "AH-70 Apache Mystic", possibly related to the AH-64 Apache shown here.
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