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you can't say "clothes have no gender" but then insist that certain kinds of clothes are inherently masculine or feminine (or very rarely androgynous). it's not just gendering clothes to call them male or female, calling them masculine or feminine is still gendering them! i've been wearing lots of skirts and dresses lately because it's hot out, shorts don't sit well on my body, it's now a personal choice rather than a gendered expectation and simply because it feels good. i don't wear them so that other trans/n-b and "allies" can misgender me as feminine. you're taking all the fun out of it. clothes don't have an inherent gender. they're interpreted in whichever way the wearer wants, if at all. some people will wear skirts and crop tops and consider them masculine. other people will wear big hoodies and loose trousers and consider them androgynous. i just consider all my clothes to be queer. not masc, not fem, just queer. if i have to choose to gender them at all, they're maverique, like me. and as a maverique, i don't want to be put into yet another gender binary based on something ridiculous like fabric covering my body. there's nothing inherently feminine about a skirt, you're just hanging on to gender rigid ideas of gendies and but honestly, i dress more for autism than for gender anyway.