The great replacement has come for my current favorite K-pop band. XLOV is led by a Uyghur Chinese (Wumuti), with Taiwanese and Japanese members, and only one South Korean. They self-brand as ‘gender-free.’

The ‘gender-free’ style stacks masculine and feminine markers for aesthetics. So you’ll see corsets over combat boots, pearls on shoulder pads, and hip sways that snap into stomps. But never toward a “this is who I am” story.

There is no narrative about any of the singers being gay or trans. They’ll borrow cute accessories and aegyo behaviors when it suits them, and they’ll switch back into masculine swagger just as easily. Post-LGBT is here.