I wore tights as part of a halloween costume and my legs immediately became the object of envy for at least three women.

This troper once did a little skit in high school english class based on Shakespeare's ''Othello.'' Our group didn't have enough men, so one of the girls was tapped to play Iago. On the day of the actual presentation, she decided to really get into it and brought an outfit to change into in the bathroom. Every person who saw her, this troper included, did a double-take at the wiry, short, but distinctly male person that walked into the room.

This Troper once played a DungeonsAndDragons character who had UnstableGeneticCode (as a result of a failed magical experiment) and flipped genders every 1d4 weeks. Naturally, he made a deal with the dungeon master that in the female form, said character's Charisma score would be maxed out at the expense of other attributes such as Strength. Oh, and the character's class was fighter.

This troper once participated in a drag show where she took up the guise of a drag king who bore an uncanny resemblance to a Civil War general (nicknamed by her dad Beauregard T. Cornpone The Third). Not only was the appearance convincing enough to fool several people on the night of the show when she wandered around just for kicks, but it also apparently caused several male and female students who attended to question their sexuality. The HartmanHips and voice kinda gave it away, but from the waist up very much this trope, and to this day I ''still'' get people who will look at me for a while in confusion before it clicks and they say something like "You were that hot guy!"

Indeed.

Yahtzee?

Well, we're both of Scottish descent...

This troper was in a local theater group and, since there were more girls than guys, had to crossdress for the dancing competition scene in Grease. Cue people asking my best friend who the handsome guy she danced with was.

This troper has a friend who cosplays as guy characters. When she's not crossdressing, she's a fairly plain and terminally dateless teenage girl. When she is, she's hit on by girls at least once every ten minutes.

This Troper cross-plays all the time, usually on Halloween but often for conventions as well. Every time I do, I frequently get mistaken for a girl. Even up close, and when I speak in-character. I've actually been hit on. And I admit, sometimes I like stringing my suitors along for a bit, just to make them feel weirder when I suddenly revert to my normal voice and act like I thought they realized it all along and had no idea they were serious. Yes, I'm a CompleteMonster, I know.

This Troper's girly car and long hair (since shaved) caused a surprising number of men to ogle him while driving. So he grew a beard.

This Troper's cousin once dressed up as a girl for Halloween. The response he got was something along the lines of "dude, SHE'S HOT!"

This troper mentioned on TroperTales already about his androgynous, theater-acting brother. This troper already has a girlfriend, but attraction to his brother still happens a lot, and the brother is a tease. We still share the same room and this troper's at the end of his ropes and is feeling really dirty now... That and very aroused.

This male troper has very feminine facial traits, and even my mother knows it: I once decided to let my beard grow but... I just looked weird ...

One of the days for Spirit Week at this troper's first High School was opposite sex day. It was very disturbing how many guys got mistaken for girls, and how many of them had great legs. It literally took her morning band class 20 minutes to realize that the random new girl sitting in the back was actually the guy trombone player. His normal bowl cut was in a beehive, he was wearing a blouse and bra with some small waterballoons, a mid-thigh-length skirt, and 3 inch platform heels. It was quite the job.

This is more of a case of ViewerGenderConfusion, but one of this troper's guy friends (not a bishonen in any way, shape, or form), who just happened to have long hair, was approached by a guy in Wal-Mart who'd mistaken her friend for his wife.

This troper has cross-dressed for Halloween exactly twice. The first time, he was taken for someone's girlfriend - by a member of the same social circle. The second time (at a bar), he was actually hit on by the {{Handsome Lech}} among his {{Nakama}}. When he dropped persona, the response was ".... I need either more or less to drink."

This troper has been mistaken for one of a legitimate pair of YaoiGuys while attending a local anime convention with a casual friend. The thing is, what I was doing barely counted as crossplaying. (School shirt, which is a ''blouse'', jeans that show off my lack of butt, and a cell phone stored in an interesting place.) I'm not terribly flat-chested, and I'm not even terribly attractive, let alone masculine-looking OR {{bifauxnen}}. It left me with permanent mental scarring and two lifelong friends -- the huge, tough, pierced and tattooed bisexual I was con-going with and one of the girls I Bridget-dropped.

This Troper's brother competed in a cross-dressing pageant for the college we go to. She was both disturbed and annoyed that he made a hotter chick than her... and ''He'' has dreadlocks. He also liked to brag that girls were constantly commenting on how hot he was. Narcissism at its FINEST.

This troper's eight year old sister recently got a boy cut. She then started at a new school one month later, and had to constantly remind people that she was a girl. One of this troper's parent's friends said, "Aww, she'd look like such a middle school guy, if she was taller." to which this troper (a middle school girl) promtly replied, "A ''hot'' middle school guy."

This Troper once dressed as a ghost for Halloween; a costume which caused an upperclassman to note "That chick was hot," strangely enough, I was not actually trying to disguise my true gender whatsoever.

Years ago myself, my brother and a male mutual friend attended our very first anime convention where we spotted someone cosplaying as Mai Shiranui from the video game King of Fighters. This person, despite being flat as a board, actually did a very good job...So good in fact, my brother and our friend had a nice long conversation about the various things they would do to this person in bed, to put it politely. We eventually became separated and I decided to get on line for the dealer's room. Shortly thereafter, the Mai cosplayer and her gaggle of girlfriends got on line behind me. While eavesdropping on their conversation, I couldn't help but notice that one of the voices was a bit...off. I turned around discreetly in an attempt to find which of the females standing behind me had such a masculine-sounding voice. Not only was that voice coming from Mai, but I also noticed for the first time the small-but-definitely-there adam's apple. My God, the look on my male cohort's faces when I told them of my discovery... absolutely priceless. We would actually run into "her" quite a lot at other conventions, and she always crossplays. I got into a conversation with her once. Her name is Brie ("like the cheese!") and she's really, really sweet. (and as an Easter basket, by the way.) So next time you're ogling some cute cosplayer at a con and she turns out to have something a little "extra", don't say I didn't warn you.

If she is referred to with feminine pronouns and calls herself Brie, there's a good bet it's a bit more than just cross-play...

This troper regularly hears catcalls and whistles whenever she wears a short skirt. I usually just let them think what they will. No sense in derailing their momentary fantasies... or putting the brakes on my ego boost!

I'm female, if rather broad-shouldered and androgynous-looking, and the first to admit that I'm very plain. However, I bet that if I actively tried to pass for a guy (yes, I've been mistaken for one in the past), I would be considered quite attractive.

Please stop describing me.

This troper likes wearing guy's clothes. The pants are just so spacious she can do high kicks and a ton of fun stuff in them (martial artist). And the guy's jackets are perfect for hiding things in the pockets. Guy's jeans also have bigger pockets than girls jeans. She tries to look a little feminine by wearing a tight top to accentuate her MostCommonSuperpower, and she has long curly girl hair, but I'm mistaken for a dude all the time by girls hitting on me (which doesn't bother me).

This troper is plain and usually easy to miss, but when I cosplay guys, I'm apparently very cute.

This Troper, who's long-haired, skinny, and a bit androgynous at the best of times, was once conned into cosplaying as female, and was squee'd over by both sexes more than entirely reasonable, even getting a ''marriage proposal''. It was the bows, he's decided, that lent him so much appeal.

This troper has a friend who is androgynous in all aspects -- name, body, face. Everything. (S)He very much enjoys this, apparently, and comes to school one day in a miniskirt and a blouse, then the next in a man's shirt with baggy jeans. This troper is certain that many of the staff and administration are confused as well, as a pair of teachers once had an argument about it in front of the class. This friend doesn't take gym or play any sports, and has never gone to the bathroom at school at all within memory. quite literally nobody knows, and (s)he's loving it.

This Troper will leave you to decide how closely his Halloween 2009 costume follows this trope.

When This Troper was in high school, the marching band would hold Tuesday night rehearsals in addition to our early-morning rehearsals held every day, and each evening rehearsal would have a dress-up theme (not mandatory, though) like "Movie Character Night," "Superhero Night," "Cowboy Night," etc. The band's favorite theme was "Dress Like The Opposite Sex Night," and my friend Eric arrived as a tall, willowy blonde, and he is one of two genuinely attractive male-to-female crossdresser I have ever seen in RealLife. He bore a resemblance to Paris Hilton, except that he was GORGEOUS. He got a ton of ribbing from the other guys that night, but I think they were all secretly thinking, "I'd hit it."

This troper went to a costume dance at her college dressed as Ichabod Crane (so basically, as Johnny Depp). She later found out that some friends from the theatre department had been across the room going "Wow, who's that guy? He's really cute-- oh my GOD that's Rin!" (She has since been compared favorably with Alan Rickman and Antonio Banderas, so yeah, she figures she's winning.)

I'm kind of embarrased to admit this, but when I was looking at some GuildWars concept art, I sae that it was drawn by Kekai Kotaki and thought "She has a really beautiful name".

This troper looks good in a dress. Let's just say that he can't say no to his friends... Also has been mistaken for a girl on the street. But I shall not cut my hair!

OK, most of the time, this male troper looks like a weird lesbian, but when I actually dressed more properly as a girl (I was helping a friend with a play, seriously...) I kind of liked how I looked... And she too!

Suffice it to say this troper has a friend who crossplays FinalFantasyVII's Reno very well. I already have a girl-crush on her as it is, and this does NOTHING to lessen it.

This Troper once bleached his hair blonde on an impulse. He made absolutely zero changes to his wardrobe. At least once a week someone would refer to me as "Miss" or "Young Lady".

This Troper has been mistaken for a guy at every single dance she's ever gone to. Except for Prom, for obvious reasons. She also gets a lot of curious looks and cat calls when she goes out in public dressed as a guy.

There is a girl at this troper's college who is completely androgynous and whose wardrobe tends more toward the masculine. She also has a tendency to wear her hair up or hide it all under one of her ubiquitous hats. The result is a shining example of how the {{Bifauxnen}} concept can work without the short hair common to most of the examples on its trope page. This girl is also one of the most critically acclaimed (by our school newspaper, that is) members of our sole Shakespeare-only undergraduate theater group, and seeing as she's a senior, she's done plenty of roles, all male. Apparently her Hamlet 2 years ago was amazing, I practically forgot she was female during her brief but intense role as Tybalt this past fall, and everyone is looking forward to seeing her as Brutus in Julius Caesar before she graduates and we never see her again. This whole thing was oddly subverted in the one time she was actually cast in a female role (for an unrelated play someone wrote on their own) rather different from her real personality, and she found it unnatural to have to learn how to act like a woman again. The end result, though, was a major case of SheCleansUpNicely, proving that her gender didn't have to be bent for her to be attractive.

This troper combined "Attractive Bent Gender" with "HotForTeacher." So I'm a rather androgynous/feminine looking male, with a waist waspier than some women and weighing about as much as a woman of the same age. Our school had a crossdressing day, and I decided to participate using my girlfriend's clothes. This was also the day I had to give multiple lectures for one of my teachers who was away for the day. In one of the classes was a lesbian friend of mine, who admitted to me after school that day that she could not focus at all during the lecture because I was such a good girl that she wanted to hit on me!

This troper's friend had to crossdress for a theatre performance she did. She made a very attractive male.

Unfortunately averted by this troper. I did not make a good woman. Admittedly, I did not try that hard.

In middle school this troper had girlish features and long hair. One day in the lunch line I was cut in front of. A lunch lady called the boy out on it saying that he'd "Cut in front of this little girl," and motioned at me. I grabbed the tray, moved on without a word, and tried hard to forget. A year later and a guy mistakes me for a cute girl and attempts to flirt. I left without a word, got on my bus, and drank as much BrainBleach as I could that night. But the mental scars... they do not leave.

This troper was once a fairly active "for the fun of it" crossdresser. I was once in a boutique-ish thrift store with a friend, both of us in drag, trying on dresses. My friend emerged from the dressing room in a particularly hot little frock, and a nearby large African-American woman and her daughter had this hysterical exchange that I can still hear in my mind as if it were yesterday: #QUOTE#'''Mother:''' Oooooh....she look GOOD! #QUOTE#'''Daughter:''' But, Momma, that's a ''man''! #QUOTE#'''Mother:''' I don't care -- he STILL look good!

This troper knows she looks better in 'masculine' clothing and with short hair, which makes her look, well, like a guy, and not in the unfortunate biker babe/dyke sterotype way. That also might be why I've been having gender issues lately, but...

Funny story... Pikmin Link (or another amazing female Link cosplayer) came to a convention I was at with an amazing Zelda cosplayer. My friends and I proceeded to ship the two until we found out that she is a girl...

And then you shipped some more?

This gay troper has dressed herself as a suave and classy young man on more than one occasion and has found that she gets a lot of flirty attention from her straight female friends when she does.

When this troper was in high school, my school's marching band would have Tuesday night rehearsals, and each practice had a different dress-up theme. The most popular theme was "Dress Like The Opposite Sex Night." During my junior year, my male friend/section leader showed up in a long, platinum blonde wig; a tight, sleeveless pink top; a matching pink miniskirt; fishnets (I can't remember the color); and plenty of makeup on his face. As I stared at him, I realized that he looked like he could be Paris Hilton's much-prettier younger sister. This turned into some bizarre twist on EvenTheGirlsWantHer (my friend, not Paris Hilton).

At least one of This Troper's friends has forbidden him from crossdressing in his presence, for fear that it would be too much to take and turn him totally gay for said Troper. Suffice to say, said Troper loves teasing him with the prospect.

Just last week, this male troper wore a dress and makeup for as part of a school tradition. Said troper was getting looks from both male and female schoolmates. He was then told by his straight friends to never do that again, because he does it too well.

This (female) troper was in the school play her junior year of high school. Enough people auditioned (6 roles and 6 people) but it was 5 girls and 1 guy and 3 female and 3 male characters, so I and another girl got cast in male roles. Mine was that of an old bald man, but having c cup (and still growing) boobs and not being particularly masculine, i didn't think i'd look the least bit like a guy. Guess what? One of my friends told me afterwards that people were wondering what guy they got to play my role. Cue me having a "w..t..f?" moment.

I (male) play the female character in DigimonWorld Dusk. I once traded with a girl who played the male character in Digimon World Dawn. She was jealous of my character's kitty hat.

This troper was that in middle school. According to some.

This female troper likes dressing in 'masculine' clothes, i.e., button-up shirts, ties, sweater vests, etc. A female friend of mine once told me (while I was dressed in a Harry Potter-esque sweater-vest-and-tie combination) that if I was actually a boy, she would have a crush on me.

This troper (gawd, how that whole "this troper" business annoys me...) is {{Transsexual}} and is actively working on achieving AttractiveBentGender while I *sigh* otherwise seem to be unable to actually afford to transition. I've been "ma'am-ed" about 1 out of every 75 times or so, and I certainly won't correct them...and this is WITHOUT dressing overtly feminine (sometimes I wear skinny jeans, that's about it...plus they make my legs and butt look GORGEOUS) almost 100% of the time.a

This troper once saw an adorable Asian {{Supergirl}} cosplayer from behind at a con. When approaching "her", I saw that "her" face was slightly masculine. I started talking to "her", and after "she" replied in a slightly masculine voice, I answered with "Oh, when I saw you from behind I thought you were a chick". "She" replied with an obviously strained and falsely feminine "I eeeeyyyyaaam a girl!". This troper walked away snickering. To say nothing of this Misa Amane cosplayer, who managed to successfully fool this troper's sister.

This troper's friend thought, at first, that our other friend was a really hot guy and went to hit on "him", only to discover that "he" was a she. She did comment, however, that, were Brittany a guy, she'd be a very hot one. Poor girl gets misteaken for a guy often (doesn't help she dresses like one). Likewise, my guy friend thought our friend was a guy (he never spoke to her, ever) until Snt. Patricks Day, when she borrowed my green sweater and the guy then realized that he's a she and felt very bad. For the record, she had large tracts of land at the time; she just wore baggy sweatshirts and had her head down at all times (sleeping).

Am I the only one who finds March Eridan to be strangely hot?

This troper's friend when crossplaying. - Go back to AttractiveBentGender; which, in drag, is surprisingly hot.