In your childhood did you ever get "are you a..."

[karenpayneoregon]

What brought this up was after reading a headline in a online new video where a person was asked "Many people asked me, are you a boy or are you a girl".

That brought back memories of me being misgendered at an early age by various people and some would ask my mother why is your daughter dressed like a boy?

[charadreemurr]

That kind of stuff never happened to me, but in middle school i dealt with bullying based on the fact that I was gender nonconforming (well before I knew I was trans or that that was a thing I could be).

[Kylo]

Not all that much. However people in school and elsewhere used the male version of the typical extended form of my name because they assumed I also had that extended form, and were too stupid to know there was in fact a female form... which I quite pleased with, actually.

[KathyLauren]

I was mostly treated like the boy that the doctors said I was.  I do remember getting comments from adults that my long eyelashes were wasted on a boy.

[arice]

I was regularly assumed to be a boy (yay!) but I hated it when people "corrected" themselves. I despised anything I perceived as feminine and even my extended family called me "the boy" my grandfather never had.

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[xchrisx]

Not only in childhood, but in adulthood right up until I started Testosterone.
I was always androgynous or read as a boy, even with childhood long blonde hair and later, boobs lol

Because of that it didn't take T long to nudge me over the tipping point.

[cheryl reeves]

I always confused people about whether I was male or female til I grew a mustache at the age of 18 after 2 yrs of dry shaving so to grow facial hair.

[RobynD]

Happened to me fairly often - I was into sports - which most people took as a masculine thing (no idea why, but that was then). My mannerisms, my looks, etc spoke feminine to people.

[SidneyAldaine]

Unfortunately, I got only "you are so sensitive" "Are you gay?" "You sure you're not gay" and such.

[Kevinwg]

Treated  as my gender. My mom did yeald to some of my quirks. She fought it get me into home economics when that was mainly a girl thing. Boys went to shop. I was the only boy in gymnastics at my school.

[CarlyMcx]

Age two, or thereabouts:  I had curly blond hair.  Someone said, "Oh, what a pretty girl you have," to my Dad.  Dad said, "that's it, that kid is going to the barber."  Mom said I cried when they cut my hair.  I wonder why?

Age seventeen:  Gendered female by a passerby who offered to do the body work on my car.  (It was 1980, I had long hair).

Age twenty three:  Asked if I was gay by an employer.

Age twenty five:  Gendered female and catcalled by a cyclist while sunbathing in a men's bikini at the beach.  (It was 1988, I had a long mullet).

[kathb31]

I remember when I was very young, people would say to me that I had long
beautiful eye lashes ... then they would get all flustered, realizing
I guess that you're not supposed to say that to a little boy. I was absolutely
thrilled inside. When I was about 13, I used comb my hair forward to try and
look better. I did it in front of my young cousin and she said to me "You look
just like a girl". One of the few happy moments of my childhood.

[Lady Sarah]

I looked like a girl when I was a baby. I have seen the pictures. In school, I was constantly being beaten up and called a girl. Even after I got tall, people figured I was a girl. When I ran into a guy I graduated with, he said he thought I was on hormones in high school. I graduated in 1984, when this was illegal.

[RobynD]

I remember when I was very young, people would say to me that I had long
beautiful eye lashes ... then they would get all flustered, realizing
I guess that you're not supposed to say that to a little boy. I was absolutely
thrilled inside. When I was about 13, I used comb my hair forward to try and
look better. I did it in front of my young cousin and she said to me "You look
just like a girl". One of the few happy moments of my childhood.

Ha! Totally forgot that one until you mentioned it, they use to say same to me. " i would kill for your eyelashes"