Gerald Ford in 1914

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This shows the future President Ford in 1914 wearing a dress, commonly worn by very young boys till the early 1920's.  If you look on Webshots there's a photo of Franklin Roosevelt taken in the early 1880's wearing a frilly dress (with petticoat--maybe) and long hair.  This was at a time when women in pants in these USA were so few they could almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.  The World War factory work trouserized women and other impersonal forces were operating to get very young males totally out of skirted costumes.  Parents today, most of them, would react with stunned shock at anyone dressing their young boy in skirts, but it was commonplace over a century ago.  There was no difference of outcome, i.e., men reaching adulthood and deciding they were gay.  That has little if anything to do with clothing indoctrination or with individualistic choices.  Let no one read between the lines a campaign on my part against gays.  But I am straight as any line from a geometry textbook.