This helps provide a sexual hierarchy as well as preserving the maleness and masculinity of men who top, especially if they primarily top fairies, crossdressers, queens, femmes—all expressions of cultural transfemininity, both as effeminacy practices and as forms of third-sexing.
You might want to check out this book that sounds very similar to the structure you're describing. My advisor and his partner had many debates on if clothing and performance done at a certain age range constituted a full gender, but the hierarchy is similar. shop.japansociety.org/catalogues/a...
Written by Joshua S. Mostow and Asato Ikeda, Contribution by Ryoko Matsushiba Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu , male youths, were desired by men and women, con...
This history is, by the way, where I get the term "fairy" that I identify with as name for my non-binary identity. Going to write an essay about this, but might take me a bit because of all the housing stuff. This is stuff I've been trying to understand better pretty much my entire life.