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  • Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and often in contradiction to one's socialization. […] This indicates that some aspects of feminine verbal and aesthetic expression precede and/or supersede gender socialization.

    Julia Serano (2007). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.323, Seal Press