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Personally, I think by seeing gender as a constructed facade that serves to reinforce our identities, rather than a social construct, it's easier to realise that how we present ourselves is less dependent on social expectations and more dependent on our own perceptions of them. Gender is NOT a social construct. It's a self-created façade based on society's perception of gender expression as a concept.

What this essentially means is that your presentation of gender is more important than the concept itself, and as such, conformity is actually only present when you perceive gender itself as a social standard - despite most of it actually being gendered behavioural and fashion standards.

Essentially, gender is not a construct invented by society, it's intertwined with our inherent identity as a form of expression, and the perception of our identity is built upon social standards for behaviours that have been linked with gender. Gender is not a social construct, it's a mask we put on to adhere to a constructed sense of social conformity.

It is fundamentally just a different means of expressing ourselves, and we often see it as a construct when in reality it's more the arbitrary standards we must conform to that are a construct.

It's for these reasons that hyperfemininity and hypermasculinity, along with other gender-nonconforming identities can even be nonconforming in the first place.

NORMAL PROGRAMMING WILL RESUME SHORTLY