This is just my 2¢ as a nonbinary person but I genuinely think that cis people's gender is just as constructed as trans people's. Cis people love to accuse us of having making up genders or artificially modifying our appearance but...the entire makeup, fashion, diet, workout, and haircare industry exists so that cis people can maintain the illusion of two entirely distinct genders with no overlap.
Everybody is constantly doing drag, all the time.
Even though the internet has been inexplicably force-feeding me drivel about gender for the past 14 years, I manage to resist posting the vast majority of this crap on my blog. You're welcome. But this one is pithy and hits the same spot that I've been trying to ignore for too long now, so let's take it down. It'll be easy.
Hey, 2¢ person, the difference between your concept of gender and mine can best be illustrated by the following hypothetical. If we were to go back to any time and any place on the globe and talk to people from any background prior to 2011, language barrier aside, they'd nod along and express that yes, they too know all of this stuff. It's common knowledge. In contrast, if we did the same with you, they'd think you were totally insane.
We might be able to carve out some sort of exception involving ivory tower academics, but probably not. Oh, I can go and read some other pretty bizarre remarks from those guys circa 1990 or whatever, but even those enterprising individuals would be baffled at the notion that haircare or diet are tools used to prop up the illusion of a gender binary.
The one aspect of this that disturbs me is that all of those people in the past would be wrong about something here, because, most likely, you actually aren't totally insane. Oh, you've got issues. But you've been able to become acclimated to a society in which posting this unhinged crap online is relatively normal. The Overton Window has shifted so far that your position, one which would have been a clear sign of some pathology for most of human history, is now just annoying.
