"People who were presumed to be women were seen as cross-dressing if they weren't wearing a skirt or a dress.
It was in fact seen as so inappropriate that it would lead to 'the collapse of civilization'. Where are we hearing that?
And then how did we get the right for women to wear pants? It was because women began to organize and protest, actually go out into public, risk arrest, be arrested, be physically abused and taunted. Many of these people were lesbians, so shout out to the lesbians.
And they fought to destigmatize it such that now we can have conservative political commentators who are in pants telling us that men in dresses are cross-dressing."
women used to be criminalized for wearing pants
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Even into the 21st century, when I worked at a large tech company you've definitely heard of, it was understood that women needed to wear skirts to certain floors of HQ!