anyone else been called out by a young child when clearly not presenting

[odysseus513]

So I just moved back to south florida where my best friend and his wife live. They have a four year old I haven't seen since starting hrt. So I go over to their house for dinner tonight, wearing jeans and a polo, totally not out to them. Their son about thirty minutes into the night that uncle blank, me, is a girl. His parent's ask what he's talking about, to which he replies he's a girl. Guess we really don't see the changes ourselves.

[stephaniec]

I haven't ,but that's what kids are good at

[Allyda]

I haven't yet either. There's alot of small children in my neighborhood though and they've only known me as female. As for in stores, not yet at least as far as I know of.

[mrs izzy]

To this day (been full time since 2005) children scare me. They seem to be so unsure and it freaks me out.


Izzy

[Jenna Stannis]

I imagine that this could go either way, in a Murphy's Law kind of way. As in, if you're presenting as female the kid would call you out as male and vice versa.

I'm not even presenting as female in private these days (long story), but my 2-yr-old son keeps calling me mamma. Could be just a language thing, but he's pretty switched-on language wise and he keeps doing it despite being constantly corrected.

[LordKAT]

Yup, even in jr high when I didn't know it was possible to transition or that there was people besides me with the same condition.

[Cindy]

I know I have posted this before but:

My friend's 4 yr old told her Mum. "Cindy is a different lady to you" Intrigued she asked why?

"Cindy drives a sports car"

Mum felt deflated and old!

[DrBobbi]

Had an 8 year old last month say I was a girl. With her mother's permission I explained to her, and her 13 year old sister that I was transitioning. Later than day they bought me christmas gift from them from Saphora.

[Ms Grace]

My 8 year old niece seems to be aware that something is going on - I still present as male around her but she appears to have noticed changes in my mannerisms.

[FalseHybridPrincess]

Pfff I dunno guys... I mean my 5 years old cousins  call me a girl all the time...

why ?

Cause I wear a pink shirt,,,cause I have long hair,,,cause I like minnie mouse as much as I like mickey...

I really cant tell what they are thinking...actually the most awesome part is when I go "yeah you know actually I am a girl "
and their like "ok wtf is going on "

when it comes to random kids on the streets...they are creepy ok , what the hell could they be thinking...
I mean is it possible that they recognise that you are a biological guy when you present compeletly female???

[Jane's Sweet Refrain]

I should start by saying that this situation was not embarrassing for me in the least. When my now eight year old daughter was 22 months old (years before I started transitioning) she started insisting that I was a woman. My hair was short. I had a goatee. She consistently held this view for over two years! I, of course, was delighted. All my friends knew about it and shared in the "joke" with us. But she wasn't joking. Needless to say, when I came out to her when she was seven, she was more than a little pleased and loves the story of her prescience.   

[FalseHybridPrincess]

I should start by saying that this situation was not embarrassing for me in the least. When my now eight year old daughter was 22 months old (years before I started transitioning) she started insisting that I was a woman. My hair was short. I had a goatee. She consistently held this view for over two years! I, of course, was delighted. All my friends knew about it and shared in the "joke" with us. But she wasn't joking. Needless to say, when I came out to her when she was seven, she was more than a little pleased and loves the story of her prescience.   

Isnt that down right wierd though?

Is there an explanation for this???

[Jane's Sweet Refrain]

Isnt that down right wierd though?

Is there an explanation for this???

Thanks for noticing and asking. It is strange, though it felt perfectly natural to me. I was never an effeminate male, (I like them, but stereo-typical effeminate men don't act like women) but I had always been a feminine man in terms of what we might call an open quality, an affability than men often don't want to have. And you can imagine that I was a very involved parent to her. But none of these things are enough really to explain her insistence for so long. I just feel gifted in two ways: to have been born with a gender identity as female and have this girl as my daughter. 

[Kelly-087]

Several times.

I smile and giggle.

I dont think Im so much not presenting most of the time.. since Im extremely extremely andro looking.. but still a lot of people dont think of me as a girl.

[WFane]

Before I even thought about transitioning or knew I was trans, I had kids under 10 running up to me asking if I was a boy or a girl. Being Thai, I have a naturally high pitched voice, but I worked HARD on having a low resonant Used Car Salesmen style voice because I got made fun of a lot... and now I'm working back on getting my high pitched voice again lol.

Anywho, back to topic, I overheard a little girl saying to her mom "She's preeeettttyyyyy," and when I turned around, she was pointing at me.

[Me the Girl]

You know, I've always heard things said that children can see more things than we see as adults.  I wonder if they can somehow see the femininity inside us?

[Allyda]

You know, I've always heard things said that children can see more things than we see as adults.  I wonder if they can somehow see the femininity inside us?

I tend to think so. For even when I was little girls my age wanted to play with me, and as I got older I've notice kids just seem to sense my femmininity.

[JenSquid]

A few months ago I went up to the local ice cream stand for some ice cream, and while I was waiting in line, this little girl turns to her father and asks, "Daddy, is that a boy a girl?," clearly in reference to me.

[Dahlia]

I imagine that this could go either way, in a Murphy's Law kind of way. As in, if you're presenting as female the kid would call you out as male and vice versa.

True! Being on HRT as a MTF and presenting as a male will emphasise your -newly gained- feminine traits.
Being on HRT as a MTF and presenting overly feminine (dressed and made up) will emphasise your old masculine traits.

It's quite an art to find a balance in presenting that will make an (early on HRT) MTF being read as female.

[Adam (birkin)]

Wasn't a child, but an older woman who has a somewhat changing mental state...she asks who I am (she forgets everyone) nd they say "birthname" and she goes "...No." Lol.