Washout
A washout is a boy who is removed from the Dorley programme for any of a handful of offences or conditions, any of which is taken as proof that the boy is unsuitable for rehabilitation. Most sponsors do not know what becomes of washouts.[ch. 4]
Washout offences include "[a]ttempting to hurt any of the women" of Dorley Hall[ch. 4] and, in the case of Declan, being an "unrepentant and persistent" rapist[ch. 14]. As the programme selects for boys whose sense of gender is flexible or malleable enough to be changed by the programme, boys with a strongly-set sense of gender are considered “practically an instant washout, as "[i]t’d be pointlessly cruel to try and get them to change.”[ch. 19]
Elle's "little project"
Washouts are taken from Dorley Hall by Peckinville soldiers and transferred to Elle. Most Dorley girls and even most sponsors do not know what happens to them after that;[ch. 4] even Tabitha does not,[ch. 44] though Monica does.[ch. 43] Outside of the Hall, Isla and perhaps the rest of the Misandry Squad know of the washouts' fate;[ch. 44] Frankie may also know based on intelligence gathered by Silver River.[ch. 28]
Elle describes two potential fates for washouts to Cally:[ch. 44]
- Some are put into a Dorley-style long-term programme that attempts to continue reforming them by feminizing them.[ch. 44]
- Others are broken, conditioned, and trained to assassinate targets, then deployed against Grandmother's patrons. Elle describes these girls as "bombs".[ch. 44]
Two of the three 2016 intake washouts are in the first group; one is in the second.[ch. 44] It is not known whether this list is exhaustive, nor whether Cora is considered to belong to the second group or some other category.
Known washouts
Six boys who washed out have been mentioned in the text:
- Declan from the 2019 intake[ch. 14]
- Craig from the 2017 intake[ch. 19]
- Phil from Tabitha's intake[ch. 44]
- three unnamed washouts from the 2016 intake[ch. 10]
One girl created from a washout has been mentioned in the text:
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