As much as it would be important to at least look at what they do not want to become; ie angry father, uncle, etc., so many if not most of us just wanted to (still) become girls/women. To that end, looking in specific to the women who inspired these girls. Mothers. Sisters. Aunts. Even a transwoman friend or relative - defining in a way WHY the camp is so vital to them?

And not necessarily to be exclusive, per se, but might every girl want to be there? Might there be exploration regarding a sib or friend observing the girl BEFORE they arrive, or accompanying their friend or sib, the latent desire might be awakened just by seeing all these girls excited to be there - maybe even a classmate or neighbor of the boy observing it all? The ABSOLUTE Sweet & Sentimental moment many of us hoped for?

I am excited for this new venture!

A medium-to-high function autistic child might attend the camp, and attract the attention of everyone else, who discover what torments him/her.

Holding him under water.
The person behind him steps on his heel when they walk in line.
He's body-shy, doesn't want anyone to see him naked.
He's tormentingly mocked as a girl.

He may never have wanted to become a girl. Teachers and administrators might be persuaded by the bullies all calling him a girl, and his own angry vehement denials, that he's really a girl inside and wants to be one. His parents are ultimately persuaded to send him to this camp.

There's plenty else one can think of.

What? It's not a magical camp?! Oh, sorry...

Well they could have still have mermaid classes
with those fabric fake tails + cute seashell or starfish bikini tops.
I would've loved something like that when I was a kid, still would in fact.

And maybe if they had horses they could skoosh ice cream cones
onto their foreheads; Although I guess they'd fall off pretty quick
and the horses would probably get quite annoyed.
But regular old horses are pretty cool too...
~hugs, Veronica

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Tinkerbell's Zipline? That you ride while wearing fairy wings?
Or maybe that's too much fantasy-stuff, but I'm in a mode tonite...

Heather,

I hope I can call you "Heather". I have always loved that name. I think that names that come from plants are some of my favorite.
Everyone has posted so many good ideas over the last day or so. I don't think that I have much to add. Still I'm not sure that I can help myself except to run on a bit. I hope you don't mind and find at lest some of this useful. Let me share a few thoughts. First we have the campers themselves. Second we have the camp director and zir staff. Finally we have the camp maintenance crew. In addition I want to expand a bit about the story structure and things like narrative and character. Let me go into a bit of detail for each.

Of course the story revolves around the campers. We see that Zee/Zoe is central to the story. We see that (s)he has a positive relationship to his father. We don't get much more than that. So there is plenty of room for development. And there are likely to be a bunch of other campers that Zee associates with daily.

One of the central character groupings in a "camp" story will be the "troop" or "clique", or "cabin", of campers who are housed together and their leader, or "big sister", or "house mom" or "BFF". A lot of fun can be had deciding on just the vocabulary for both the grouping of campers and for the names they give themselves. Then the campers might get to choose a name for their crew.

The social structure of the camp is provided by it's director and by zir staff. These include the pod leaders but also cooks and activity coordinators and lieutenants and so on. The old saw goes: "Organizations take on the character of the people who lead them." This seems another part of the story that would be fun write out.

One of the most important people in the camp and one of the central activities that makes or breaks a camp is meal time. So the cook and how the cook gets her work done are critical. And that feeds into the structure and scale of the facilities. Is this a wilderness camp? a residence camp with dorms and cafeteria? Do campers participate in meal prep? Lots of potential subplots are possible about food.

Another critical group of staff members are the activity coordinator and hi(s/r) crew. What kind of camp is it? We know that it is a janegirl camp but that sets only the most basic of expectations. How far along the serious/playful spectrum does it go? Is there a pool or a lake? Are there boats or horses? Are there competitions? Is the camp structured around a set of overt or covert goals? Do they succeed?

Then of course any camp has facilities. And those facilities have people who maintain them. Latrines and showers and lawns and tents or cabins. And there is laundry and transportation and then managing all the special facilities. These people can appear in the story and often serve as foils for plot points. They become mentors or spirit guides or just an alternative perspective on some of the activities at camp.

I love the idea of constructing this janegirl camp world. I think that there are lots of opportunities for many fun and fulfilling stories to tell about the place and the people involved. Some of this ground has been covered by other sissy school and conversion therapy stories. Still, as with any genera fiction, there is room to do it again.

Of course all the physical detailing and world continuity stuff is secondary to the actual people that populate, and the stories told in the world. Narration, expository, dialog are the things that carry a story. All this world building is really secondary.

I wonder if there is room for a treatment of the topic that is not all transgender transition story and not all hobby crossdressing. I wonder if this is a multi-story universe of many authors that you have conceived. Personally I'd love for a canonical universe to evolve around this place. I'd love for it to be sweet & sentimental but with enough conflict and challenge to draw interest. I'd also like it to leave room for hobby crossdressing even if it does include characters all along the many different spectra involved.

Thanks for asking for help. It was fun taking a few minutes to write down some ideas around this topic. I have a number of characters in my "not yet ready to publish" pile that would have a great time at janegirl camp.

I've run on too long already. You have more important things to do about jane camp than listen to me babble about how much I love the idea.

I'm looking forward to seeing where you take all this.

Ever your devoted fan
Crescenda

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