As long as gender was changed socially and informally – by the cut of one’s hair and the style of one’s clothes – it could mean any number of things. This allowed for alignment, conflation, or common cause between any number of people transing gender, from those who momentarily challenged the constraints of women’s lives to those who lived fully as men in the world. In all of these cases, one key united them: such a change could be undone. For hundreds of years, we have seen parents, employers, and carceral authorities order such people to surrender their men’s clothing and put on a dress or other attire deemed appropriate for women. In their eyes, since men’s clothing facilitated the transformation of one’s gender, women’s clothing could undo the transformation – at least for the most part.