"What are you wearing? You never wear skirts."
"I wear what I want to" 

This really happened to me and my best friend when we were in year 5. 
Those boys had conflated gender expression and sexuality. I'm sure not for the last time. Nothing had taught any of us at that point that gender was anything to question or think about. 

Hello and welcome to my contributions to the Sharing Stories Beyond Gender project. 

I'm a cis female type creature (she / her pronouns please) who has come to think about all things gender by:

• being a tomboy who was expected to blossom into a normal woman
  
• being the partner of someone who transitioned in her mid 20's

All right dramatic drum roll let's do this thing.