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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I used to pass as a boy before puberty, now impossible, esp. after pregnancies. Genderfree could be saying 'if I *had to* position myself in this belief system, this is closest to how I've always felt'. I haven't been cis since I was spanked for refusing to wear dresses at age 2.
Yes. I used to get mistaken for a boy a lot pre-puberty, but never since. My son spent a whole term of French in year 8 with the teacher thinking he was a girl. It would never happen now he is older. His school uniform and hairstyle has not changed.
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You seem to be putting a lot of emphasis on the general public being able to read secondary sex characteristics through clothing, they are not that astute in my experience. Ppl assume sex based on gender cues more often I think, in daily life. This is point of gender after all.
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Right but I am saying *in the absence of gender cues*. If you don't wear clothes that cue male or female (or you visit a country/culture where the dress code is novel to you) most people identify the sex of other adults with remarkable accuracy.
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Being read as female means being seen as naturally weaker and expected to accommodate others. If not adhering to norms of gendered presentation, then also unkempt, unprofessional, problematic. Constant double bind.
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