Male Fail

[Lady_Oracle]

about a year into hrt, I was at the mall with a few friends and one of them wanted to try on prom dresses, "I was like ok sure!" So we all grabbed one and started to make our way to the dressing room. I was wearing male clothing (huge sweat pants and a tshirt/male shoes) at that point still but I was out to everyone. My friends mostly accepted me so I was included in the girly moments. It was quite nice but in my head I was like I'm still not passing at all. Anyways one of the store's workers calls out to me from behind saying, "hey sir you're not allowed to go in there!" but when I turned around and got close to her she was like, "OH I'm sorry I thought you were a boy cause of your hair". (my hair was in a pony tail and wasn't very long)

I was like omg that could of gone badly but that was my first male fail, it gave me a bunch of confidence. Unfortunately I did not fit in the dress or any of the dresses my friends brought to me lol. Hrt still hadn't gotten rid of my back muscles by that point, so it was tough fitting into dresses back then. 

[zog]

I don't have any specific "modes", I just go around being annoyingly me all the time. But I first started getting looks and weird reactions very quickly, probably because I started just before summer. And that meant wearing t-shirts and other such items of clothing which showed that I was quickly starting to develop breasts. But that passed once summer subsided and thicker clothes were in order.

About 8 months in, a couple weeks before the holidays, things started happening again much more forcefully. People are looking at me odd more and more and sometimes seem even a bit scared to initiate interactions with me. I've passed several times without trying, even though nothing has radically changed. But apparently my overall appearance as well as voice changing has pushed me beyond some point that people at least seem much more hesitant to gender me male right away.

It's all extremely individual, so it happens whenever it happens to happen. And I can't really even say why it's happening more to me now as opposed to a month or two ago. People are pretty random.

[FairyHime]

I think if I were to try, with baggy clothing probably, I could still get gendered male.

At the moment though I'm at the point in life where dressing as "male" just doesn't fly anymore. All my documents have me as female and with my regular clothes no one looks twice at me and I get "ma'am"ed and called "she" pretty consistently by random strangers during interactions.
So I don't really have a reason to ever present as male again. And I'm ok with that 

[bxcellent2eo]

A month or so ago, I was with my girlfriend, and we went to Denny's. The waitress referred to us as ladies, and then quickly corrected herself, saying calling me a male pronoun. Before I could say anything, my girlfriend said, "No, you were right the first time."

The waitress apologized, and kind of giggled. She seemed fascinated with the idea of me being transgendered, but didn't stick around bothering us the whole time.