Have you ever been mistaken for the opposite sex?

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One woman in the laundromat thought I was a boy when I had really short hair and was wearing male-ish clothes, in grade 12 in Brockville... also that year a girl called me "he" a few times... once in kindergarten when I had short hair and our French teacher was going around saying "Garcon" for each boy, "Fille" for each girl, and when she got to me she said "Garcon."

Not in the flesh, but I was mistaken for a woman on the phone.

Tim

unfortunately, quite often. especially on the speakers at fast food restaurants i'm called "sir".

Yes, I've occasionally been called "sir". The way I dress is fairly androgynous (jeans and a t-shirt).

I've been mistaken for female a number of times.
I'm not really sure why.

As a kid, I was once in a while. Now I'm never mistaken in physical meetings (long hair, a pretty obviously female body, ect.), but it happens sometimes on the phone (including with my mother). Those who know either my mother or I (who apparently sound similar on the phone (which I don't hear at all, but whatever)) know I'm female (don't know which one I am, but hey, it's progress); those who don't (such as the occasional telemarketer, political call, bank, whatever) tend to struggle with it a few times. There's a definite pause when they're trying to figure out what I am (the last one went, "Is this the...(30 seconds) female of the household?"); sometimes they get it right, sometimes not.

So there I was at a huge costume ball at a prominent Chicago hotel, walking down the promenade dressed to KILL and I noticed another well costumed man come over to me and gushed about my costume and when I spoke to him he stopped dead and apologized and walked away.
He thought I was in drag! and wanted to complement me on my 'looking like a woman' but thought it was inappropropriate because I WAS a woman!

( I had a friend ask him why he walked away so abruptly. The man was in full drag queen regalia.)

Teased many times for having a face of a girl when I was younger (high school); pre-puberty, I was mistaken for female a few times. My voice is deep enough to not be mistaken as female on the phone.

RainSong,

You sound female enough; accents and stuff I guess.

When I was a baby, the butcher that my mum went to would refer to me as a little boy.

All the time. Most people on WP think I'm male.

Apparently, all households must now consist of only one female person.

I've been mistaken for a male throughout my entire life. I specifically chose to grow my hair long at an early age in order to stop people from making the mistake...it didn't work.

I have been called a "gay bastard" by people out in the street. And when I go walking I often hear passers by muttering to each other about my gender ("I swear that's a bloke...") This is probably because I am flat chested and dress like Van Helsing.

I love it. I'd hate to think I looked feminine.

Oh yes, and I've been mistaken for a man several times on the internet.

Thanks. I suppose that's part of it, and you know I'm female, so that probably is part of it too. I think some of it depends on when I answer the phone; if I'm tired enough, my voice apparently is deeper than usual (or so says my aunt; I don't notice the difference).

I don't think you look like a female; said children were wrong.



The things they don't tell you. I assumed that he wanted the female head of the household (which is my mother), he just kinda worded it wrong.

yeah...from behind...
I have pretty hair

I grow roses...and they're lovely

Last edited by Kilroy on 11 Nov 2007, 10:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

A few people on the internet have thought I was female before.

Strangely enough, I had the face of a girl as a child, but nobody thought I was one.

One time I cut my hair really short and someone thought I was a boy.