Make-up can really do wonders when used right, so learning it could work to your advantage.
In high school, my acting director was a woman, though her hair was cut/cropped very short.
For Halloween one year, she used only make-up and just the right outfit to look like a man -- fooled us, her students, that had been with her for a few years, for quite a bit before I caught on.
When she'd walked past us at first and into the theatre, everyone was like, "Who the hell is this guy? Should he be on campus?"