Biochemist, mass spectrometry witch, caretaker for the nanoflow liquid chromatographs. Trans woman, lesbian. Recumbent cyclist. Wisconsin, USA


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Out on fedi-don I saw someone note that one transition thing is getting used to wearing a belt threaded the other way around and I thought, wait, is that really gendered after all? Because I remember wondering about that way back when I was much younger and in those day it would have been a 'look it up in a book' project but which book I can't imagine. I'm sure it's been written down but just where would you start looking? So whatever, and it did occur to me to wonder again much more recently in transitioning, but because it seemed more trouble than it was worth to last time I thought about it I didn't pursue it even though now you can just google.

But anyway now I remembered you can just google and yeah, I guess it is. I'd been doing it the girl direction all along 🤣

Which brings up another memory from childhood, I had a belt with a brand name or something on it, might have said "Levi's" or anyway something like that. And I wore it upside down because I was too stubborn to thread the belt around the other way from how I was used to 😅 and I wasn't that into advertising a clothing brand or whatever even back then!


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in reply to @beige-alert's post:

Okay I'm confused. Aren't belts just potentially symmetrical, like you can just flip them and — oh wait nevermind I get it. The Levi's belt for instance would still have a logo visible still, BUT it would be upside down unless it went the other way right? I think I've had a belt or two that had that.