neville park#SexingtheBody / #DelusionsofGender: both Cordelia Fine and Anne Fausto-Sterling cite studies demonstrating that young children first learn to distinguish gender through social markers (clothing, colours, occupations, gendered concepts like "rough/soft") before associating it with body parts, and before learning that body parts are permanent.
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