I've lost the post now but the "child refuses to wear dresses" post is another one of my "rage opinion" pieces.
If anyone notices, children's dresses are usually made with really scratchy, weird fabrics (lace, smocking) and extra material (weird sounds, that flap-flap feeling) that if you have ANY touch-sensitivity at all can literally feel like you've been daubed with honey and sat on an ant hill.
There's no problem with the dress significance, just that they are a very weird garment to wear - even now I'll always wear leggings/bike shorts under mine, the rare times I'll get the maxi dress out.
But parents will assume that refusing to wear dresses means that the child wants to be a boy (not that the fucking garment is a hairshirt)
Children are weird with gender. My (younger) kid thought anyone with glasses/spectacles was a girl, and also granddad was a girl. In the kid's mind "The Nomenclature Of Human Who Hates Scratchy Garments Is *Boy*"
And then they get their tits lopped off at 13. It's fully clown time in clown world.