Has any woman here ever been mistaken for a bloke?

RocketRacoonsFurryBalls my brother and I got mistaken for each other too! And it was because of grunge. We both had long hair, both wore check shirts and skanky jeans.
Although I think the one time my friend ran up to my brother, hugged him and then said 'Oh I thought you were your sister' she did it on purpose because she fancied him.

Never bothered me to be mistaken for a bloke. My husband sometimes gets mistaken for a woman because he has longish hair - again, we just laugh about it.

I'm tall and when I had short hair I was mistaken for a bloke a few times. It hasn't happened with longer hair.

I had a moped when I was 16 and in my padded jacket with back supports nearly every one assumed I was a teenage boy. I found it thrilling (in a sort of George from the Famous Five kind of a way). But it doesn't happen to me in any other context.

I have but only once - short hair, converse trainers, jeans, leather jacket back in the 80s. I dropped something (it was in the US) and walked away from it. "sir, sir, you dropped this". All smiles when it was realised that I wasn't a sir. They were a bit embarrassed but I didn't mind.

I am tall, largish build and broad shouldered, but have very visible curves (boobs, hips and small waist) and long hair. I’m a teacher and get called sir every week.
It doesn’t hurt me but I am a bit bewildered .

When I was a child/early teens I was mistaken quite a lot but I was a tomboy so rather liked it until I got into my teens.

Also was mistakenly registered as male in my mum's country when born (genuine clerical error, not "assigned at birth" bullshit) which did cause real issues when I turned 18 but was fairly easy to fix.

I don't dress feminine, so a few times mistaken for a butch lesbian. Which I take as a compliment

Yup. Totally. Why wouldn’t anyone? Butches are hot!

I am very pear-shaped, short and female-looking facially. Since puberty not been mistaken for a boy or man even the times when I had short hair and was wearing ‘man’s’ clothing (as in clothes made for men sold in a mens’ clothes shop). Mens’ clothes (trousers especially) don’t sit as the eye ‘expects’ on me, so noones’s ever mistaken me for not being AHF, even at a glance.

Never, but I think it's more to do with hair and clothes than a person's figure or face. Always had long ish hair and like to wear a mix of masculine and feminine clothes eg if I wore a men's coat I'd probably wear skinny jeans and more feminine shoes.

I also had a very awkward time as a teenager when we went to order the flowers for my dads funeral. I had a short hair cut and the man taking the order decided to give all the women/girls a flower and my brother chocolate when it came to me he very obviously looked confused and stared at both things in his hands. My mum then said "shes a girl" which I was annoyed about as I would rather chocolate than a bloody flower.

Yeah. It didn’t bother me at all, I actually quite liked being called ‘Sir’. It felt respectful.

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I sometimes have to look carefully at people to make sure I am addressing them accordingly. There is a transexual working in my local hairdressers and I sometimes make the mistake of calling her him by mistake which goes down like a house on fire.

My cousin sometimes gets mistaken for a man, a woman recently had a go at her (and was quite aggressive) in a wetherspoons toilet as she thought my cousin was a man. Despite my cousin telling her in a very feminine voice that shes a woman.

When I was a teenager I used to wear jeans and a cap all the time and some girls thought I was a boy. Strangely enough I now wear mainly skirts or dresses unless it is cold out.

In the early ‘90s I was very grunge. 5 foot 7, skinny, long hair. I can remember a few “is that/are you a boy or a girl?” type questions aimed at me. I didn’t really mind.

One time I was standing next to my brother. We were both in jeans and flannel shirts, with long hair. Some guy slapped me on the back saying, all right [brother’s name]. That was kind of funny.

I get mistaken for a man quite often.

I am short, with boobs and long hair but I do wear combats and hoodies.

My kids think it is hilarious when I get called sir.

Never kicked off like some people I have seen do.
Don't see the reason

Knew a long haired guy in the 70s who got misgendered regularly on documents that required his photo.

I never have been, that I know of. I do worry about it though because I have a square jawline, big head, no boobs, broad shoulders, rugby player legs and size 8 feet. I never wear makeup or jewelry, and live in jeans. My hair is armpit length though, I tend to wear reasonably feminine tops, I have a big bottom and round tummy and my voice is that of a little girl, so that probably helps.

I would hate to be mistaken for a man, or a 'butch lesbian' for that matter. I would love to have a more naturally feminine appearance.

Look at the size of it!

Bloody he’ll that’s long for a rather dull anecdote.

No, but I’m tall and fairly solid and when I was younger I worked with elderly people and the amount of times I heard something along the lines of “look at the size of it” in an almost disgusted tone was a bit upsetting (at the time). I think I may have preferred to have been mistaken for male rather than an unacceptably proportioned female.

On a semi related note (and I honestly feel uncomfortable about this, couldn’t say it in rl), I recently saw an ad for a series on tv with an actror/writer I’m really fond of, had a look at the blurb and for no reason other than the thumbnail, assumed the central character was a trans woman.
I felt a bit humphy about it because I watch everything this woman (playing the secondary main character) does and felt rather put out that it’d probably be a bit of a woke force-feed.
Anyway watched it, and within the first few minutes based on a piece of dialogue confirmed to myself the character was in fact TW.
I really enjoyed it but was braced for the trans rhetoric to come along. It didn’t.
Also found myself really warming to TW character because she wasn’t performing woman at all. Everything about her struck me as female: the humour, how she conveyed emotions and connections, just all of it.
She also wasn’t physically presenting as anything but authentically female. Beautiful to look at but with no artifice or inhibition.
Got all the way to episode 5 and she got her period. Straight onto google...woman.
I feel like I had gone on an epic journey, I’d honestly been rethinking everything I thought I knew.
But turns out I was just a div!

I was called "young man!" once. I was delighted by the "young".

Yes frequently from behind. Despite average woman height, long hair and c-cup boobs, usually in a fitted (byt scruffy) t shirt. I do look quite scruffy though and dont have v delicate features. It's not flattering but I prefer it to being called Madam which I hate

Yes but I was wearing mens clothes at the time in GAY this guy was chatting away to me and when I replied he screeched "fucking hell your a woman!"

I'm short dumpy and have quite big boobs so think he may have had a few.

Yes, i’ve Been mistaken as a boy.

I put it down to short hair.

Just to clarify - I did not go on holiday to Tesco (cue 'Withnail &, I' "we've gone on holiday by mistake" moment)

I'm only 5ft 1 and have always had a baby face. A few years ago (I was very slight in frame at the time) I was stood with my sons in Tesco on holiday. We were all wearing raincoats with the hoods up, having gone inside to shelter (I was wearing one of my sons' coats) when a woman called us all young boys.

I did not scream blue murder because she'd 'misgendered' me.