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I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd have medically transitioned even if I lived alone on a desert island. I lived for about 5 years as a gender nonconforming woman and the reason I did was because men's clothing made my body look different.
I remember in the period right before I realized I was trans there was a ton of publicity for companies that made men's (style) clothing for female bodies. It made me feel ill. It's almost funny how disturbed I was by the thought of having to wear these clothes.
I feel similarly. Hated clothing marketed towards women in any form (even if it’s ‘masculine’) because I truly continue to feel removed from that. But I’d contest the notion that transition would exist without the contruct of gender.
Maybe for a lot of people it wouldn't, but for me my body could never feel like it belonged to me until it was masculinized. I did a lot of therapy aimed at "accepting myself" and it was worse than useless. But post transition I have little or no dysphoria at all.
And the only reason I would contest this is that if we truly did live in a world free from these constraints, where would we get the idea that how we present ourselves is somehow tied to our biology?
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough- it was never about how I presented myself. The discomfort was w/ my body feeling and looking wrong. Certain clothing camouflaged that to an extent. Nothing to do w/ presentation or social role.
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