I’ve often wondered why we don’t just do away with outdated and often sexist gender stereotypes and accept people can dress however they want to, including make up, hairstyles, whatever, and have relationships with whoever they want, without attributing it to what norms associated with what sex/gender they are. Normalise ‘girly’ men and ‘manly’ women. We were on that road until recently. Surely that’s a lot more achievable than the mess that’s happening now and would it then really matter that much? It might seem unachievable but then what we’ve got now is so polarising it’s never going to work either.She still looks like she's going to chib you if you look at her funny.
I wonder how many men who like dressing as women would have been happier in the days when men wore beautiful clothes, make up and jewellery just as women did. Did the amount of cross dressing go up when men's clothes became plainer in the last couple of hundred years?
I also wonder if we normalised little boys wearing what they liked, even if it's pink sparkly dresses, and little girls who hate wearing that sort of thing, that there would be fewer children who question their gender. Not so much biology but society.