Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue

"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" is a science fiction story by Charlie Jane Anders. It was first published in Boston Review, in their 2017 Global Dystopias anthology.

Rachel is a trans woman who is captured by an agency that forces detransition by means of brain transplants — where she discovers that the person supervising her torture is her childhood friend Jeffrey.

Gardner Dozois compared it to Kafka's The Castle.^[1] Publishers Weekly considered it "astoundingly good".^[2]

In 2020, Anders stated that she has only read the story aloud once, as she finds it too traumatizing; as well, she reported that "other trans people have told [her] that they had to lie down after reading it."^[3]

Anders has described the story's genesis as her own anxieties over the then-pending inauguration of Donald Trump.^[3]

• Text of the story, at Boston Review
• Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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