• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Hair seems to carry more weight than other visual cues. I have a son with long hair and a daughter with short hair, and people constantly address my son as a girl and my daughter as a boy. It doesn’t matter how they are dressed or how we are addressing them.

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        13 days ago

        I try to ignore physical features that people can’t control. Things like skin color and glass eyes. But not words on their T-shirt or bumper stickers on their car. With wig technology what it is today, hair is a borderline case. So, of all of the gender-coded features, I feel like hair is not the most problematic. Maybe that’s why people are like that?