The first time you passed?

[ajthomas]

Congratulations!

I was visiting my girlfriend for the Christmas/New Year break and we were at the booze store. The store manager said, "Excuse me SIR, could I please see some identification" when we were checking out. The high stopped when she saw the gender on my license, but hey! Better than nothing. It was a good feeling

[capnkyler]

The first time I "passed" caught me completely off-guard because it was in church, of all places! We had only gone to this new church two or three times and so we were still meeting new people, and one of the guys came up to my family and was chatting and he hugged all of my sisters and mom and then went to shake my hand and said, "and nice to meet you, sir." I was really surprised (and ecstatic, of course)! Unfortunately, my mother quickly 'corrected' him, which made everyone blush, but I was still in shock and happy that it happened.

Since then, I pass fairly often - at least to the point where I'm not surprised when I do, but always very happy! [emoji5]️

Also, my family has stopped ruining it for me (probably to save us all the embarrasment), which is awesome! Now they just pretend as if they don't hear someone call me He/Him/Sir/Young Man/Etc. It's great.


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[thorhugs]

I actually sort of passed before I even considered questioning my gender. It got to be a joke with my friends, how frequently I'd be mis-gendered more often than my trans friends. A few times, I even dealt with jerks who tried to imply I was a transwoman.

But the best, and biggest thing I recall was a few years ago. I went to dinner with a friend and we were waiting to be seated. There was some staffing thing going on and we had to wait for a while. The manager kept saying things like "we need to get these gentlemen a table." He said it several times, and even said "gentlemen" again when calling us to seat us. 

[JenSquid]

I know I was gendered female on several occasions prior (long hair probably had a lot to do with it), but the first time I can remember after coming out to myself occurred the first time I went to the Christkindlmarket in Chicago. This was in early December about three years ago. I staff member surveying visitors approached me, addressed me as miss, and before I even had a chance to speak, had already marked "female" on the survey. Seeing as he never changed anything after I spoke, I'm going to assume I passed. Now, it was dark, I was wearing a heavy coat, and I think my [messenger] bag looked like a large purse. Still, it felt affirming.

[Sophieraven]

Well this Morning i was out on my morning stomp round the village, I'm diabetic and try hard to get sugars down and get weight under control plus look after my self better, it was darkish and i was wearing a cap, tee shirt and joggers, when this guy walked out of his path with his dog right in front of me, he stepped back out of the way with a"Sorry Love." and let me by. I was chuffed over that, Also, all the time i dressed male, no one has stopped at the crossing in the village to let me cross, even thought it's law to, yet since i have dressed and acted more Feminine, every time i cross, the cars stop. So i seem to be doing something right, lol.
Sophie
PS could just be coincidence though