Has any woman here ever been mistaken for a bloke?

Yep. Once, in a restaurant. I’m small but curvy and at the time I had long-ish blonde hair. My colleagues thought it was hilarious that the same waiter called me “sir” three times.

Weirdly when I had cropped hair nobody got it wrong.

Never mistaken for a bloke. I don't dress feminine, so a few times mistaken for a butch lesbian. Which I take as a compliment and don't screech oppression all over the Twatter about.

All the time when I was a child.

But that's because my mother cut my hair short and dressed me in 'boy's clothes' and it's a lot harder to tell before puberty sets in.

Not since I got boobs/hips has anyone mistaken me for a boy - even when wearing masculine clothing.

Yes. The Scottish Government recently replied to my email to SA Somerville addressing me as 'Mr Scrimshaw'. (I hadn't given a sex or title.)

In real life, yes, when younger I was sometimes got 'son'. I suppose relatively tall, sometimes short hair, and I often wear/wore pretty non-descript asexual clothing.

Now seguing from that into middle-aged mother's invisibility, am pretty obviously female.

Hasn't ever given me the slightest jolt, though, couldn't really care less if someone misgenders me. Mostly found it quite funny.

No, never. But my DH regularly does (until they see his face) - he's very slim with long hair. I don't get the impression it bothers him.

I'm a woman and I've been mistaken for a man in the sink area in a woman's toilet once. I am tall (taller than the average male height) and I was wearing a big down jacket as it was cold outside, so my figure was hard to detect. The woman who mistook me for a man left the toilets quickly as she thought she'd entered the men's toilets, then she came back in and apologised. She was embarrassed, I said there was no need to apologise and that was it, no problem. I haven't modified what I wear because I might be mistaken again, I am just not bothered.

online including work context, frequently. I take it as a compliment. Real life never no matter what I wear / how I do my hair. I tried hard as a teenager but I’m not large with very girlie shape.

I'm a bit taller than average for a woman and very broad shouldered. I have quite narrow hips for a woman too. When I was young and had a big coat I was mistaken for a man by a waiter who saw me from the back. I found it amusing but he was very flustered.

Only on this forum- in real life, never.

In real life never, I'm very slender with narrow shoulders, tiny wrists, slender neck etc.

I never wear skirts or make up, don't possess any, never wear heels, can't due to an old injury, but even in a sack I'm too obviously small to be mistaken for a man.

Online is another matter. In more mixed sex spaces than Mumsnet I am almost always assumed to be a bloke due to the interests I have and usernames (often science related) I tend to pick.

(I never post online in my real name as I value my privacy and have never really understood why others are happy to broadcast every last detail of their lives to the world)

I used to very frequently be mistaken for a boy when I was younger. I’m 4’11” and when I was a skinny thing in my 20s with short hair I used to get it all the time.

Yes, my bank thinks I’m a man. I don’t know why. I have no idea where they got the idea from. It must have been a clerical error. Even so, you’d think they’d have realised at some point that Mr. Jessica isn’t right.

I once saw Ann Ruzylo make a 'I get misgendered all the time so get used to it' type of comment.