Maya Forstater

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.

The aim of some schools of Feminism yes, to remove gender as it's a system of sex rank. But we aren't in that world yet obviously. Nobody likes sexism, or stereotyping, but why say you are gender-free, how would this even be possible in our so gendered society?

It means I don't personally subscribe to those rules because gender is not innate, though I understand there are people who do feel they have an internal gender. It's important to say so at this moment because there is a very loud narrative that everyone has an innate gender

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.