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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Edge on August 23, 2012, 11:11:57 PM

Title: male gender, androgynous presentation
Post by: Edge on August 23, 2012, 11:11:57 PM
How does one get taken seriously as male if one is an androgynous guy whose body looks female?
Title: Re: male gender, androgynous presentation
Post by: suzifrommd on August 24, 2012, 06:38:23 AM
Quote from: Edge on August 23, 2012, 11:11:57 PM
How does one get taken seriously as male if one is an androgynous guy whose body looks female?

Hard for me to imagine there's any way to do this with consistency. Some close friends might do it for you if you ask them, but acquaintances and strangers, well if they read you as female, they will treat you female.

This was a very painful realization for me. I would like nothing better than not to hide my birth gender but be taken seriously as a member of the opposite gender. But when I face reality, I really don't think it can happen.
Title: Re: male gender, androgynous presentation
Post by: Medusa on August 24, 2012, 07:16:23 AM
In my experience males will newer take you seriously
Title: Re: male gender, androgynous presentation
Post by: Edge on August 24, 2012, 09:23:40 AM
Ugh. I thought not. This would be so much easier if I was born a cis male in the first place.