Quote from: Padma on March 14, 2012, 05:34:49 AM
My ex-girlfriend-and-now-friend's little boy has started calling me she/her, but that's partly because his mum does. But he doesn't seem to have a problem with it, and sometimes calls me mummy before he corrects himself . Very cute.

omg this is so cool.

All I know is that kids never clock me so I guess I look cis ^.^+

My twin niece and nephew used to ask me everytime I saw them 'are you a boy or a girl' someone would tell them and one of them (or sometimes both) would reply with 'I don't think you are I think your a boy'

Also when my great grandma got alzhemeirs she started saying to me 'oh aren't you a lovely looking boy, face like an angel' and then turning to whoever was with us and saying 'aw isn't he lovely' . That was when I was 13 and not out. I didn't even have boys clothes, I was too scared to ask for them. Oh and I had long hair lol.

I think its because kids take people at face value (with genderqueer/androgynous they may take a look at bigger body language signals to determine). They are new to the gendered world we live in, and do not know the main physical "tells" that adults do. They take you as you present yourself. Be great if everyone could do that. Sadly, these children will likely be brainwashed by gendernormative society as they grow up.

On that note, I've also had children see me as male. One little girl vehemantly argued with her grandmother about it in front of me...I didn't know what to say.