I think my least favourite ever was when meeting the wife of an old friend and she told me "You are totally pulling this off, you really act quite feminine", did not even know where to start correcting her.

I think I've had most of the silly questions listed here directed at me, but having a perfect stranger tug at my hair to see if was a wig and then being surprised on discovering that it was firmly attached to my scalp was perhaps the most upsetting for me.

My girlfriend's mum asked her a funny question about me:

'Now that he is a ->-bleeped-<-, are you OK with him transitioning?'

She is Norwegian and didn't mean anything by it, so I will give her a pass!

Back when my mom was in denial she brought up the fact that she knew I had been with my ex-fiance. "You do know you'll never be able to have that kind of sex again right?" "Yes mom I know."
She also brought up the fact that I got my ex pregnant (miscarried at the end of the 1st trimester) "You can't be trans because you got her pregnant".
Now days most of these types of conversations aren't with my mom. They are with some friends that genuinely have an open mind and are very curious. I get questions like will you be able to get pregnant. My personal favorite was "Hormones? What are hormones?" Hello we went to the same high school. Sex ed was mandatory. I know you know what hormones are. lol sigh.....

What she doesn't know (nor does she want to) is that the best sex was when my ex was in the dominant role. It made me feel more like a girl. I even joked around saying shes the guy and I'm the girl. Yet for some reason I couldn't admit I was trans. about 13 years later (last year) it was one of the many things that convinced me I was trans.

There was an episode of King of the Nerds in season 3 where sexuality came up. One of the girls said she was 60% into girls and 40% into guys. Another girl was 80 girl/20 guy. I'm like HELL YES!!!! please tell people that being gay isn't binary at all. Even though I'm 100% into girls.

Quote from: jeni on March 11, 2015, 09:00:14 AM
It's almost as though simple labels like "straight" and "gay" are inadequate to capture the complexity of human sexuality!

Quote from: awilliams1701 on March 25, 2015, 01:05:20 PM
She also brought up the fact that I got my ex pregnant (miscarried at the end of the 1st trimester) "You can't be trans because you got her pregnant".

Now ya tell me. I coulda saved a fortune on condoms.

Quote from: Lady Smith on March 25, 2015, 11:34:00 AM
I think I've had most of the silly questions listed here directed at me, but having a perfect stranger tug at my hair to see if was a wig and then being surprised on discovering that it was firmly attached to my scalp was perhaps the most upsetting for me.

The last time someone did that to me I put his front teeth through his lip

Another transwoman at electrologist: "Holy crap, that's your real hair!"

*le facepalm*

Getting trolled with the comment:

Pick a gender!

Uh ... obviously I have, dipstick :~p

OK, I can jump in, because I had one extremely upsetting online exchange this week. The guy seemed nice (he was unaware of my status and only had my profile pic) - still, he wanted to meet up and I felt like I needed to explain "something" to him. Once I told him, he still wanted to meet, told me that he used to hang out with CD and also started to gender me male in our exchanges. I tried to explain him the differences and he said: "Wow, this all is very confusing. So You are not into cross-dressing, but consider Yourself female - so You are a dude without a d*ck"
I drew his attention to utter absurdity of that statement, per se, and stopped to communicate.

My mum said "You won't be able to have sex, sex is a big part of life"
Yup you convinced me, I'll live in misery now so I can have sex in the way I'd never want it

A few months ago I was offered male underwear because they were too big for the original owner. For one thing, I haven't worn guys undies since I was 13,  and they weren't even new..ugh

When I came out to my close friend as transgendered, he seemed to accept it, but it became clear that he thought I was MtF (I am FtM) and had already transitioned into this "girl body". When I told him that, no, I haven't transitioned yet. I'm going the other way... He stopped believing me right on that. It was perfectly ok for me to be trans as long as I was a girl. The second I said I was a man, he ridiculed me for even thinking about it; saying I must've been hit on the head when I was a kid or something.

"So basically, you used to be gay (I'm in a relationship with a woman) but now you're straight, right?"

*eyeballs performed a beautiful somersault in their sockets*

Some people just don't get it.

However, that guy's awesome. He's a good friend of mine, he just doesn't know about these things.

Someone who knew me prior to transition and is blind to their own bias saying that surely at least some of my coworkers "know".
Finding the taste of their own foot irresistably delicious, they proceeded to cram it right on down their throat saying that they can "always tell" (thinks they have transdar because they suffer from confirmation bias) and if they saw me in the street would think I was a "drag king". Finished off with a failed compliment of congratulating me on my adam's apple and saying "that's how you can spot the TVs." Setting aside the ignorant misuse of "->-bleeped-<-", they contradicted themselves. Would they think I was a drag king, or would they see my adam's apple and assume I'm male? Can't have it both ways.

I've experienced enough of people merely humoring me, and enough of people gendering me correctly, to know the difference. If this person "saw me in the street" they would correctly assume I'm male, like everyone else does at this point. The one reliable visual indicator of my condition is handily hidden with a device known as "pants", which I'm clever enough to always wear in public.

Yep, that made me mad.

Quote from: DanielleA on April 02, 2015, 11:41:36 PM
A few months ago I was offered male underwear because they were too big for the original owner. For one thing, I haven't worn guys undies since I was 13,  and they weren't even new..ugh

OMG that is so disgusting on so many levels

The most ridiculous thing was my wife asking if I transition who will fix the cars when they break down, fix stuff around the house. I told her that those abilities don't go away, besides lots f women work on cars, ect
Hugs

Marissa

Quote from: Jayne on March 04, 2015, 04:44:28 AM
One that i've just remembered from the first time a stranger noticed I had breasts

Idiot: "Bloody hell you've got tits!!"
Me: "Oh my God, I didn't have them when I left the house, there must have been a mix up at the supermarket"

OMG HYSTERICAL!!!


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