Almost every culture has built gender signifiers into its dress throughout history. It is a signalling mechanism even if we don't consciously acknowledge it as such.
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Before I transitioned, I spent a lot of time reading about this history of clothing, particularly children's clothes. As it turns out, children's clothing has evolved dramatically in the past 100 years even.
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This ultimately led me to the realization that if our mechanisms for communicating gender are extremely variable not just cross-culturally, but intra-culturally and cross-generationally, then maybe the thing that changes is gender itself.
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And if gender as a social construct can change, then maybe my specific gender can also change. Turns out that was a good conclusion to make.
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Lewis Hamilton mocking his nephew for wearing a dress is silly. Within the 20th Century, a man of his stature would be mocked if his nephew *didn't* wear a dress. Or if he didn't wear a dress with the properly configured hair bow.
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Bigots mock individuals who are gender fluid, but gender itself is one of the most fluid social constructs humanity even has. It's so fluid that imperialist capitalism, which has homogenized so much to western standards, has been unable to stop its dynamism.
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Conclusion: trans people are the best, put us in charge.
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not to mention freezing weather
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