funny moments while still pre-everything

[Kelly_1979]

Although I'm pre-everything I don't know if I leave clues that girls can pick up. Funny thing today: At the university lab I was preparing some reactions (precipitation of PCR products) and noticed the door was open (bad thing since the air can contaminate the samples) so I shouted - complained why the door was wide open. Then the girl (friendly one) sitting on the other side of the bench said "wow you are grumpy today. You were like this yesterday too. You must have your period.....oops sorry for giving away your secret!".
I didn't really say anything cause I didn't know if she was just casually saying it or if she actually suspects of me being trans and is saying things like this to see how I'll react.
I wanted to ask "is it that obvious?" but there were more people there.

Go ahead and post your own funny moments.

[iKate]

The period jokes and pregnancy jokes men get all the time so I don't know if she suspected anything.

People at work saw me changing, growing hair but most people were sort of surprised when my manager made the announcement.

[iKate]

My funny moment:

Being called ma'am at the drive through. I was so stressed out and my voice gets high when I get stressed. This was about a month before I started HRT.

[kaitylynn]

I have always found women to be more 'perceptive' to a persons energy than men.  They catch things that are not exactly seen...but they are also generally pretty accepting in my experience.

I would have asked, BTW!

[November Fox]

I have one for you.

I just went to the supermarket. Half-shaved and with weird scraggly chin-hair going on, that looks very questionable but I leave it there because it does accentuate the male-ness.

*november fox* approaches after doing some grocery shopping. With a pack of toilet paper.

In the distance, a mother and her young daughter. The daughter says: look mom, that girl just went grocery shopping!

(November Fox thinks: oooooh, noooooo).

Mother and daughter get closer. The daughter has a good look at me and I don´t know whether I should look back or what. I sort of ignore it.

Girl says: "I think that´s a man though!"
Says mom: Yes, that is a man sweetie!

xD

[ThaliaNyx]

Okay, a couple weeks ago, I was at the bus stop and it felt like the bus must be late but I didn't have a watch or anything. I asked what time it was, and this group of four or five people a little ways away all pulled out their phones. The guy closest to me, called out the time, which I can't remember. Another guy in the group tilted his head to the side and said, "Huh, any other guy and you would have answered 'Time to get a watch'." The first guy turned back to me and frowned, blinked, shook his head, and turned back to his phone. I'm not quite sure anymore, but at the moment I was certain that he had seen me as a girl. It made my day, to say the least.
The only feminine things about me so far, though, are my five-inch-long hair, my nails, and perhaps my posture. It was still pretty amazing, nevertheless.

[BeverlyAnn]

A friend and co-worker had bought a house with a porch that had support posts but no porch railing.  So she talked me into helping her build one.  We were about halfway through building the railing when we decided to go around the corner to a convenience store and get a couple of Cokes.  Now I was wearing jeans, sneakers, t-shirt and a ball cap, sweaty and with sawdust on me.  The only thing that would give anything away was no arm hair and I was wearing diamond stud earrings.  As I walked past three boys about 10-12 years of age to go in the door, I heard one of them say "Hey, that was a lady."  Of course my friend, who is aware I'm transgender, overheard it and she was still having hysterics in the car when I got back with the Cokes.

[Missy D]

Oh my God...

This was years ago, and pre everything although it's likely I was wearing a little bit of foundation and blusher as I did in those days. Anyway I was staying in a hotel with a smoking area visible from the road outside. I was standing in it, still on the hotel property, when two drunk lads turned up on the other side of the street. One started shouting "alright love" and whatever at me 

I replied, something inoffensive, at which point the second one yelled: "My mate thinks you're a girl". They left, but you know when someone isn't joking? They weren't - true story  And they had no reason to do it in a make fun of the trans sort of way. I was dressed in sort of male overkill: three piece formal suit, patent shoes, pleat fronted shirt and bow tie (I'd been to a formal do, I didn't actually dress like that for fun lol!!) . Perhaps that might have been what did it? Going over the top - I've been accused of being FTM a few times too 

[November Fox]

Yesterday.

I went to a café with a friend of mine. He had informed about my male name, but I had just mentioned it and that was the first time he heard it.

We were chatting with the owner of the establishment and my friend said: "I was in the neighborhood to meet my friend here, " ......"  a long silence ensued.

The owner looked at us and smirked and then said: "Hans!" and my friend said "yes, this is Hans!" and they both started laughing.

So I guess I´m Hans. No mind what my name really is

[KyleEdric]

While my parents and I are sitting in the office of the Subaru dealer, I'm listening to my mom and stepdad chat and sign papers, while I'm buried in my phone. I don't talk or look up for most of the appointment. The dealer needs to leave for a minute, and in order to squeeze past me he says, "'Scuse me, buddy!"

When he left I felt so elated! Even Mom kinda laughed and said, "Well I bet you feel happy!"

That I did! Then when the guy came back, and Mom asked me a question, and I was forced to talk in my high pitched woman voice... And she used my real name.

Still gonna call that moment a win, though lol

[BeverlyAnn]

I had forgotten about this one.  A few years ago my church had a booth at Atlanta Pride.  My wife and I had just finished our shift in the booth and were walking around looking at other booths.  We were walking by the Feminist Women's Health Center booth and they were giving out stickers that said, "Carpe Boobum" to remind women to do their monthly breast exam.  One of the women working the booth stepped out and said, "Here ladies," and put a sticker on both of our shirts.  Needless to say, Miss Dee was laughing.  We still that sticker on the mirror in the bathroom.

[Sydney_NYC]

9 months before I transitioned (pre everything but in my Gender Queer phase) I had long hair that was dyed with red henna. We were flying back from Portland, OR with a 2 hour layover in Denver. We decided to have a relaxing late breakfast and the waitress referred to me as miss until a spoke (I hadn't done anything with my voice yet) then she just didn't gender me at all.

[lostcharlie]

 Yesterday was such a hoot I have to share. Seemed it would fit in here...
Took a cis lady friend shopping yesterday. I was in total guy mode ( not out to any friends yet ) . Helped her find some gifts she needed and helped her pick out some cute tops for herself. We ended up walking the mall doing a lot of window shopping. Ended up in the MAC cosmetics store. It was SO FUNNY. My friend had the deer in the headlights look , the poor thing is a little makeup challenged. I felt like the proverbial kid in the candy store. Place was really busy as we browsed around I was telling her what everything was , honestly she's a little clueless it seems. We eventually were waited on by a very cute young lady. While the MAC girl was helping my friend I was interjecting the occasional helpful comment without really thinking. At one point as the MAC girl was showing my friend how to use lip liner she looked at me a little puzzled and asked if I was a make up artist because I sure seemed to know an awful lot about it for a guy.I just smiled and told her I was an interested bystander. If she only knew!!

[DanielleA]

I went to a job search provider appointment once and I had to talk to a lady there who said she was lesbian and knew about trans issues. It turns out the lady thought that I was a F2M trans person and asked me if I was going to have my boobs removed. I said that "I want them bigger, not smaller". The look on her face was priceless. It was like her brain snapped.