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Gabi Talks, rants, transgender, video

Gabi Talks – Dressing Age Appropriate (video)

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Do you think it’s more important to “dress age appropriate”, regardless? Or to dress appropriate to your body type and personal style? Check out my take on “dressing age appropriate” in this short 90-second video.

Most of us have to dress a certain way for career purposes, or appropriate to specific activities, and that’s not the question being asked. This is about social policing people based solely on their age, and the expectation that people of a certain age should dress a certain way, because of what decade in life they’re at, period.

What’s your take on things? Should we be consulting some kind of “style-by-number reference guide”, based on age?
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Walk and Talk with Gabrielle #5 – “When you look like a man in a dress…” (video)

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Walk and Talk with Gabrielle #5
“When you look like a man in a dress…”
In a 2015 TIME interview, Caitlyn Jenner commented, “When you look like a man in a dress, it makes people uncomfortable.” It was a rather unpopular statement among transgender people… but was she right?

I don’t pass and sometimes people react with visible discomfort in my presence. I shared one such experience in Walk and Talk with Gabrielle #2 – “That’s a man!”

Is passing important to you? Why or why not? Please share your thoughts and opinions in a comment!
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