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.

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.

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.