I wonder if the gender-free will experience scrutiny when they are travelling through passport control, or get questioned in public toilets as these are still quite gendered spaces & although the binary is a fiction, most people, still, are recognizably on it.
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Ok, I just think it might be considerate if ppl clarified that gender-free doesn't mean free of gendered presentation or free of normative gendered presentation, because it's a particular life experience not being easily coded by others as gendered.
Most women if they put on, say, jeans and a plain boxy t-shirt, without make up or hair styling are immediately recognisable as women. Its not "gendered presentation" that is being read, but they are still subject to gendered expectations.
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That's your experience. I'm routinely read as a young man or as a what's that. I'm female. I think you really underestimate how rigid gender norms are & how quickly ppl make snap judgements about others based on v basic stereotypical outward gender cues.
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Yes I agree people make snap judgements based on gender norms. But my point is people also read sex (and then bundle it up with gendered expectations) in the absence of *any* external gendered clothing cues...
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I also think there’s an important distinction between the lived experiences of those who *are* truly unreadable (not possible for everyone, at least without surgical/hormonal intervention) and those who *identify* as neither M or F but remain clearly readable as one or other?
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You'd be surprised what you can do with layering & some low slung jeans.
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massive doses of cross sex hormones and major plastic surgery) you would genuinely be confused what sex they are.
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