Completely missing the point...

[cynthialee]

3 times in the past 20 months I have had people assume I was FTM when they found out I was trans.

Talk about a complete misgendering!

Any funny anedotes along a similar vein you care too share?

[VeryGnawty]

LOL, that is funny.

[Brent123]

A lot of people I meet think I'm MTF. I guess its a compliment but I'm not sure. 

[sneakersjay]

On the plus side though, they got your gender right, anyway!


Jay

[Padma]

I've had the FTM thing a few times, because I dress more on the masculine side of the line. I remember feeling very flattered when someone on here admitted they'd been thinking I was an FTM who didn't pass very well .

[Hikari]

Not quite the same thing, but I get clocked as female fairly often when presenting as male as I am not full time yet, or even on HRT for that matter. Just today even as I was going into a local retailer with my wife the guy taking donations out front says 'hello ladies'.

After this my wife was musing that they probably think we are lesbians (my wife has very short hair, and was wearing jeans and a t-shirt). She wants me to go to the goth club in some of my women's clothes soon, with weeks like this (3 times so far this week people have "mistaken" me as female) I might just do that. I have to admit it has me very excited to get on HRT and do some LHR, I just need to get the money up.

[Shana A]

I've had a couple of instances when I said I was trans, people asked which way. I took it as a compliment 

Z

[Melody Maia]

When I started going to my trans support group in Houston, I was very early on and total boy-mode. At the last meeting I finally went dressed. That is when I found out that many of them had thought I was FTM. Similarly, when I went to my support group meeting here in Florida, I found out when I first walked in many in the group couldn't figure out if I was MTF, FTM or just a genetic girl ally. Heh.

[RhinoP]

I've never had anyone mistake my gender, but then again, I look a lot like this:

http://rt.com/files/sport/boxing/valuev-among-st-pete-s-smartest-graduates/valuev.n.jpg

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[N.Chaos]

Nothing exactly like this, but about two years ago before I was going out in guy mode, me and Julie had to go to the grocery store later at night. There were some guys trying to sell coupons for some portrait studio, and as we were leaving he calls out after me "Sir, come on back with your wife, you two can get a discount!"

Completely sincere. And clueless of my genetic screwup.
I about died I was so happy XD I just wish button-up shirts still helped for me like back then.

[Luc]

When I say I'm trans, people typically think I'm mtf. I always take it as a compliment, considering I'm told by the same people they can't imagine that I ever looked female.

[~RoadToTrista~]

Cynthia, your breasts got huge. o.O

[Lisbeth]

I've known several people, including myself, who went through a period when people thought they were FtMs. I don't think it's at all unusual.

[AbraCadabra]

As naughty Lisbeth said it, it also happened to me.

Also during early transition when my hair were shorter.

Was quite taken when it happened in my first support group meeting.

Some other TGs said it be just fine, at least no one thought me being a di*sel-d*ke, heehee.

But your next question be: How's your baby doing?! :-)

Axelle

[Muffins]

I've had a couple of instances when I said I was trans, people asked which way. I took it as a compliment 

Z

I got this early on (which way comment) at a job interview. I was going for the "open and honest" angle as I figured at the time it was more than obvious and I didn't really know how to handle the situation. I was surprised by his comment and I thought he was being super nice about it all, though in the end his reason for not hiring me was complete and utter BS which made me question his integrity as a whole and more over his "compliment". :/

[jmaxley]

When it first starting going through the gossip mill that I was trans (this was before I ever even told anyone), I had a guy who had been interested in dating me come up to me one day and said he'd heard that I was really a man and wanted to know if it was true and if I still had a penis.