What does it mean to want to transition, while also being aware gender is a construct? Does transition mean gender is not a construct? Taylor writes in with this excellent question and a few other great insights.
 
Faith brought up <a href='https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-015-0492-0'>the monkeys who wash their sweet potatoes</a>, which is an atypical behavior that nonetheless spread through the troop and was even handed down through generations.  They do it today; you can go to Japan and see them. It's an amazing case study of behavior that meets three proposed aspects for a cultural behavior: emergence, propagation, and modification.  
 
The "modification" part is most relevant to Taylor's question. Yes, gender is a construct, a cultural behavior.  It has a lot of problematic aspects but also a LOT of aspects that feel right to many people.   So trans* people and even plenty of cis people modify gender constructs to fit themselves. We live gender in the way we want.
 
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