It will change some patterns of how you walk. Likely, those visible to most people. There are other things that it likely won’t change.
If you for example take the gait pattern of police officers to hold their hands more laterally then the average person which comes from walking around a lot with a gun on your belt I would be surprised if that pattern simply disappears when you put a gravel in someone’s shoe.
I’m uncertain to what extend a gravel in someone’s shoe would affect my recognition if the gravel is just there for the interaction and not walking around a month with the gravel. The gravel changes muscle activiation but it doesn’t do anything to change the fascia patterns in a short amount of time.
It’s worth noting that gait patterns are more central to me perception of other people then most people. One example for that was a workshop at a dance festival where the dance instructor was demostrating how he changed the way he was doing a dance step and then asked what he changed. I was able to pick it up, but it seems like I was the first person to do so and the dance instructor asked whether I have been at the workshop before (he did the same workshop at many different festivals).
One interesting aspect of the video is the claim that while women can manage to pass as men, men can’t manage to pass as women. From what I know about transpeople, there are transpeople who manage to present as the opposite sex in both directions. It might take more work for a male to present as female but it’s possible.
It will change some patterns of how you walk. Likely, those visible to most people. There are other things that it likely won’t change.
If you for example take the gait pattern of police officers to hold their hands more laterally then the average person which comes from walking around a lot with a gun on your belt I would be surprised if that pattern simply disappears when you put a gravel in someone’s shoe.
I’m uncertain to what extend a gravel in someone’s shoe would affect my recognition if the gravel is just there for the interaction and not walking around a month with the gravel. The gravel changes muscle activiation but it doesn’t do anything to change the fascia patterns in a short amount of time.
It’s worth noting that gait patterns are more central to me perception of other people then most people. One example for that was a workshop at a dance festival where the dance instructor was demostrating how he changed the way he was doing a dance step and then asked what he changed. I was able to pick it up, but it seems like I was the first person to do so and the dance instructor asked whether I have been at the workshop before (he did the same workshop at many different festivals).
One interesting aspect of the video is the claim that while women can manage to pass as men, men can’t manage to pass as women. From what I know about transpeople, there are transpeople who manage to present as the opposite sex in both directions. It might take more work for a male to present as female but it’s possible.