I knew a boy from chorus who was very...not masculine, shall we say. It wasn't that he was in the chorus- there was a ton of us- but maybe it had to do with his skinny jeans, peaked face, waist-length hair, floral print, pink backpack, and Ugg boots (no, not the kind that are men's shoes, but honest-to-god Uggs, the kind my sister has). Needless to say, I was so surprised when I saw him standing at a urinal in the bathroom.

An extremely odd example: I have a clearly masculine figure and facial structure, and a moderately deep voice. The only feminine thing about my appearance is my hair, which reaches to just above my shoulders; yet even that is pretty boyish, since it's the kind of frizzy mess that any lady would straighten out ASAP. And yet, just the other day in Gym class, I was standing near two other guys, one of whom was boasting about how good his jump-rope skills were. He remarked, "Seriously, I'll score better on this test than (''points to friend'') you, or (''points to random guy'') him, or (''points to random girl'') her, or even (''points to me'') ''her''!" It took him about ten seconds to realize he'd made a mistake.

Due to this troper's facial structure and dress sense of tight clothing which create a womanly figure (apparently) he has been mistaken for a woman quite frequently. His friends have said he looks like La Roux's Elly Jackson, but with blonde hair.

A variant: Apparently, this troper ''sounds'' like a girl when he talks on the telephone; telemarketers invariably assume that he is female.

Another troper's husband tends to have this problem, which just adds a little fuel to his (already passionate) loathing of telemarketers.

This troper also has a very girly telephone voice, where most customer service agents automatically assume the person on the other line is a girl. (Once, someone even asked for my number! I was this close to disclose my gender.)

As well, this troper is often mistaken for her father over the phone.

This troper started growing a beard because of this.

You're not alone.

Rather quirky variant: this troper has had to convince people online that he's a guy (this wouldn't happen in real life as he has a mustache). Apparently he types feminine...

Throughout puberty, THIS troper was frequently mistaken for his mother whenever he answered the phone. From neighbours to family members, no less. It doesn't help that he still keeps his hair uncut whenever he's not required to.

It happened to this troper, who has ''distinctive facial hair''. How could it happen then, you ask? Well, he's also got very long hair, and the guy who called him "{{Maam}}" said so from behind him. He still maintains that it didn't actually happen that way; he didn't say "Ma'am," but "Man."

Same here. A friend got asked by an old woman whether this troper was his girl-friend. Also, he was repeatedly adressed as Mademoiselle in French restaurants. You'd think the 'artists' nation' France would be immune against this trope...

This troper when he had long lair, had a picture of himself that was mistaken for a girl. Not so bad in itself, but 1) these were close friends making the error, and 2) he was ''right there for comparison.''

One of this troper's best friends really looked like a girl in our first year of high school. We became friends because I was the only person in the class with the balls to ask him the question on EVERYBODY's mind: ''Dude, are you a boy or a girl?'' This was of course, before Roll call, upon which we learned he had a very masculine name: Benjamin.

This troper's ''younger brother'' gets this all the time, due to his longer-for-a-boy hair. Honestly, she doesn't understand how that works; he rarely brushes it, so it's a mess of unfeminine tangles, and his ''voice'' is definitely male. Still, 95% of the time when she and he are out in public, they get referred to as "girls".

I'm told that I was often mistaken for a girl as a baby, despite my parents' efforts to dress me in very boyish outfits to get the point across. I still am often called "ma'am" by telemarketers. And, yeah, I probably come off as kind of feminine on the internet as well due to some misguided idea that guys aren't supposed to be romantics. (Though I came off as quite a novelty item at my local ''Breaking Dawn'' midnight release party--a guy who ''wasn't'' dragged there by a girlfriend. It's a shame I didn't get any phone numbers while I was there...) I also have a fairly androgynous build--none of the typical masculine muscle, and the skin-and-bones build actually ''does'' create a slight curve to my hips. It is because of this that I absolutely refuse to shave now that I'm finally growing a decent beard.

Shave the beard, and you're my perfect man. Except for the ''Breaking Dawn'' bit. (And some minor details, but really.)

This troper had a guy in her sixth-grade class who was growing his hair out for donation to Locks of Love. Sadly, at that age it can be difficult to tell, so I'm fairly certain that he got this all the time. It did not help that he went as a very convincing woman for Halloween... And then no one recognized him when he finally did cut his hair.

I have been mistaken for a woman on more than one occasion. I have mid-to-long hair almost to my shoulders and rather androgynous facial features. My build is almost completely free of muscle, adding to the feminine appearance. The only things that really kept me from being mistaken for a woman more often were my deep voice and height. I have begun to wear leather jackets and sunglasses a lot, keep my hair more dissheveled, and grow out stubble to avoid any possible confusion in the future.

I had mistaken my mail-man for a mail woman from a distance.

This troper once tried to grow his hair longer to change appearance for once. When that was done, despite his definitely unfeminine clothes, he had 2 guys on the street who tried to hit on him and commented on his ass. From then on, he shaved his hair and still keeps this hairstyle until today.

When this troper was around a year of age, my parents took me in to a department store for pictures. In the elevator, one of the other people looked into the stroller and said, "Oh, what an adorable little ''girl''!" My father immediately turned to my mother and said, "''He'' is getting a haircut as soon as we're done here." It was the fact that, at the time, my hair was very curly. Today, I have longer hair than my sister (and it's settled into "wavy/messy").

My very fragile and smooth facial features, and the fact that I'm almost identical to my mother leads to very unusual situations...It was useful when I was a kid, but now that I'm 22...I just look like some weird lesbian...

This troper is mistaken for a girl... regularly. ''Regularly''. He has long hair (mid-back length, people), a {{Gender Blender Name}}, and, according to his friends, has a voice that sounds like a prepubescent girl on helium, to say nothing of the fact that he acts kind of feminine. People point-blank reuse to believe him when he says that he IS, in fact, a guy.

FetishFuel. Especially if you'd add to that that you're not fat. I'm female and straight, by the way.

Bizarrely, this used to happen to this troper's ''dog''. Yes, he was rather pretty looking for a male dog but he hadn't been for a certain trip to the vets so it wasn't like there was a lack of evidence. The fact that someone maintained that he was a girl after they'd seen him lying on his back moves it into wall banger territory.

This Troper had this problem from grade 8 to 10 when he was growing out his hair. I even had a new guy hit on me once (causing the other guys to laugh thier asses off, incidently I replied, "Wrong Team Dude." with a very unfeminine voice) and was mistaken for a girl when shopping for shoes. Worst part is I didn't look like a girl at all, I was and still am a Fat Ass.

This Troper had this problem from the back,but the goaty and mustache help.

In a rare (?) female version, I get mistaken for a guy when I'm on the phone. Any telemarketer asking if they're talking to my father's son get a very pointed response that in fact they're talking to his daughter.

Different trope, honey.

This troper has a high voice (high enough to sound like a woman on the phone), a babyface and a few rather girly mannerisms. The only thing saving me from looking like a fat girl is my short hair; it also doesn't help that I hate having a beard and will shave it whenever I get a chance.

This troper knows a girl named Blaze, who he was thoroughly convinced was a boy. He didn't believe she was a girl until several teachers referred to her as such. She even joined the boys whenever our gym class was divided up by gender.

This troper is constantly being mistaken for a girl, so much so that I stopped caring, hell I even respond in a girly voice, mostly for the laughs, and partly because it makes me feel pretty.

This troper regularly sees someone that fits this trope to a T while waiting for the bus to college. It wasn't until she eventually heard him speak that she finally realised that he was actually a guy.

This troper's mother relayed a story from her workplace, where she's often the first person that a customer sees when they enter the store. A customer came into the store with a faulty electronic item and wanted to speak to the person he'd talked to on the phone, and said he'd spoken to a woman. Cue mother calling up the only woman working that department on that day, and finding out that she hadn't dealt with anyone with that problem at all. The only other person on the department... a six-foot plus bloke with a very deep voice. The customer was advised not to mention that he'd mistaken him for a woman.

Due to my long hair, I usually get this treatment, although it's died down recently.

When this troper was a ''sex worker'', of all things, he had to deal with the occasional john who suspected he was secretly a woman with his hair cut short, a la TippingTheVelvet.

A friend put This (male) Troper's hair in a pony tail, and a guy he knew came up from behind and asked his other friend "Who is that girl?" This Troper turns towards him, and he starts laughing. This, being the most notable time. People meeting This Troper for the first time also have a tendency to think he's girl because of his long hair, he also never wears shorts, so you can't see his leg hair, and also gets rid of facial hair immediantly. It's not like This Troper's trying to look like a girl or anything.

My boyfriend often gets this, especially on synth music festivals and the like, when he wears makeup. On a recent occasion of that kind, some guy I'd talked to during a concert a little while back walked up to me and said, "I was talking to your ... girlfriend?" Cue said "girlfriend" showing up, and cue embarrassment when he started talking and the other guy realized that the "girlfriend" was in fact a guy. Other Guy must have been pretty drunk or something, though, since he'd been talking to "her" while waiting outside ''the men's room.''

This troper has long hair, and has been mistaken for a girl several times while at work. The fact that the company dress code doesn't allow shorts for some stupid, fascist reason doesn't help (They'd get the hint once they saw his hairy-ass legs). Nor does the fact that he remains clean-shaven and can't grow much facial hair beyond a mustache and a goatee. It's usually old people who make this mistake (Considering that they lived through the '60s [Because of the hippies], you'd think they'd know better), but he's even gotten this from YOUNGER GUYS. It makes him want to beat the piss out of them.

This troper has been mistaken for a girl several times, his voice being the only truly definitely masculine thing about him. He doesn't mind, though, since he finds it highly amusing.

This troper, and he loves it. Strangely enough, he's asexual.

This troper is frequently served first in restaurants. Long blonde hair and poor posture will do that apparently. Fortunately, looking them in the eye and/or speaking clears things up quickly.

There was a guy at school with long hair and kids and teachers kept making fun of him by saying he looked like a girl. Didn't help when he wore two pigtails during spirit week. Though, he got his hair cut like a normal guy and everybody was in utter shock and couldn't even tell that it was the same person.

Just today, in fact, this troper's World History teacher told the class a story of how a former (male) student of hers was mistaken by some random person to be his girlfriend from behind. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues. The next day he had much shorter hair.

This troper apparently sounds quite female on the phone, however due to an ear condition thing he can't really tell if that's a logical connection or not. Based on recordings my voice sounds deep. :O

This troper once weighed in at 110lbs, is just over 5 feet tall, and has HartmanHips. As in, his waist was 28 inches whilst his hips were 36 inches. Used to have a ponytail almost to his waist. Met one of his friends when he asked another friend, "Who's the hot chick bent over the pool table?" This troper now weighs substantially more, has short hair and has a goatee. However, when he wore makeup to work on Halloween, his boss remarked, "Holy crap, man, you're beautiful!"

This troper here again. I'm feeling either brave, exhibitionisty or masochistic, but a pic can be found here. Don't worry, it's totally innocuous. And it's a few years old.

Marry me.

This troper knew a kid in junior high who wore his hair down to his waist. He was often mistaken for a girl from the back (this troper mistook him for one even from the front).

Liangnui I]] have a story where the main character is routinely mistaken for a small, flat-chested girl by practically everyone who hasn't met him before. This happens to be his BerserkButton, and strangers are quickly corrected when his voice drops about three octaves, he gets GlowingEyesOfDoom, and starts wrecking the scenery. His girlfriend, meanwhile, looks a lot like a 13-year-old boy.

This Troper is occasionally confused for a woman from behind. Especially when I'm walking into the bathroom. It gets funnier considering I'm rather large, with a giant goatee and a ridiculously deep voice. I guess it's my mid-back length hair. The look on people's faces when I turn around and say "I'm a guy" in a voice three octaves below theirs is totally worth it though.

This Troper is about 6'0 135lbs,has very long,thick wavy black hair and is routinely mistaken for a woman.The most recent time being last week (and by a border guard who was even holding my passport lol). He finds it especially funny when big, burly, manly men call him honey or offer him a drink.He doesn't mind he just takes it as a sign that he's pretty :p

This Troper used to have very long wavy hair that had many women very jealous. Not supprisingly, I was mistaken for a girl quite often especially because I hate facial hair and have a rather thin body. However this particular situation takes the cake. I was serving at a soup kitchen with my ''boy-scout troop'' when this one lady comes up to be and says "Thank you so much for doing this; '''God bless you, little girl.'''" Not suprisingly, that line became (and likely still will be until they know I cut my hair) MemeticMutation within the troop.

The only way This Troper is not mistaken as a woman (and constantly propositioned by chubby chasers) is if he gets a buzz cut or grows facial hair. The latter takes a few months and the former, This Troper refuses to do anymore. To make it worse, This Troper also insists on using shampoo that is marketed towards women and lavendar soap. Also, likely due to hormone levels (normal for a WOMAN This Troper's age), he sounds like a woman, too. This Troper's favorite part of this is when another guy walks in on him in the men's room, checks the sign, and then warily walks in. It's frocking hilarious.

This troper has a semi-fictional example. Her younger brother believes that Edrear from {{Bizenghast}} is female and will not listen to any evidence of the contrary.

This troper ''thinks'' that the very pretty guy in her math class is, in fact, a guy, but isn't sure, especially after mistaking him for a girl the first time she saw him.

This troper has never been mistaken for a woman face to face, but thanks to my high-pitched voice (I sing first tenor in choir) and GenderBlenderName, I often get addressed as "Ma'am" on the phone. Then there's my friend, who has long (mid-back length) red hair and a relatively slight build. He was once persuaded to participate in a cross-dressing event for a charity fundraiser, and his two sisters took great glee in picking out makeup and a dress for him. During the event, he overheard a couple of women talking behind his back (literally -- they couldn't see his face) saying, "What's ''she'' doing there? That's where the guys in drag are supposed to be standing!" When he turned around and spoke to them in his normal voice, one of them was so shocked she actually screamed.

This troper, when he was younger, always kept his hair long (Still much shorter than my sister, but longer than any other boy my age, who all had crew cuts); because of that, many people though I was a girl back then. It was to the point that I could have worn one one of my sister's dresses and nobody would have though anything of it (To be honest, I probably would have tested this had I been allowed to).

This troper is often mistaken for a lady ONLY because of his hair, which goes down to the bottom of his neck. I had a guy grab my ass when I was waiting for my girlfriend inside of a woman's store because he though I was his girlfriend due to the hair and skinny jeans (never wore them again, probably because of this).

My family has an extensive history of traveling, so my uncle purchased his sons a flight log each. The eldest one went to Singapore when he was 7 and when the Captain signed his log, he wrote "Your daughter very pretty".

This Troper is almost entirely androgynous apart from his voice. This leads to invariable confusion. I have alopecia (look it up), but not on my head, so hairlessness on my arms, legs and chest don't really help.

This Troper has been mistaken for a girl by almost everyone his entire life, in fact recently when he met a friend's mom she immediately assumed I was another (male)friends girlfriend. And when he went to the local music shop to buy a guitar with his father (he knows all the employees so came with to get the 'friends price') the desk clerk a twenty-something girl asked him if I was his daughter. Strangely though on the phone people always assume I'm a man in his late twenties.

A side note, when I was in third grade one of my best friends who I had known since the first day of kindergarten, told me he thought I would be "really hot" if I were a girl, though being we were nine at the time it was probably innocent, and when I was at another friend's birthday party one of the guests told me he thought I had "sexy eyes" which became a running joke throughout the night, usually in the form of, #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "Everybody's hungry, where should we eat?" #QUOTE#'''Me''': "How about [=McDonalds=]?" #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "Nahh." #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Look into my eyes and say that." #QUOTE#'''Everyone Laughs'''

Also another time when I and the friend whose birthday party it was ran into him and his girlfriend at Walmart the friend told his girlfriend he wished he had hair like mine.

This troper's brother got confused TWICE at the same music festival one or two years back, for being a girl. He has short hair, which is also longer than mine, which probably explains why he was confused by my dad's friend.

This female troper was out dancing with a friend one night and spotted a ''gorgeous'' girl. She was tall, with curly brown hair down to her back, delicate face, and absolutely tearing up the dance floor. I was working up the nerve to go talk to her when my friend took it upon himself...something that worked out for the best, since it turned out my sexy lady was a sexy, androgynous man. Also gay, or I would've been happily hitting that.

just the other day, this troper was talking to (and, let's not lie, hitting on) an individual who, for all the world, appeared to be a very pretty female; as in looked it, dressed like it, and had a feminine (if slightly deeper) voice. it was only afterward that this (mostly) straight male troper was informed that the young lady he'd been conversing with was, in fact, a young man. ah well. i'd still go on a date with him.

This troper is mistaken for female quite often, even though I only have dirty-blond hair past my ears and a very deep voice. However it is usually from the back I am mistaken, which may be on account a black leather jacket I always were, which because of my short upper body gives me a slight hourglass figure if zipped all the way up

This troper is occasionally mistaken for female when seated, due to his long curly and cared-for hair and being skinny. Some people have even needed to ask while talking to him.

This troper was barely 115lbs at age 18, and had mid-back length hair. He was often mistaken for a girl before talking... (His voice is a deep bass)

This troper seems to be it, according to his Yaoi Fangirl friends. I've got very curvy hips, a thin build, a round face and plump lips, and long hair. Just to make things even more hilariously perfect, I'm a male-preferring bisexual.

This troper in sixth and seventh grade. Never cut my hair and it was all the way down my back, and since this was before/during early puberty and I was pretty fair skinned it was a common occurrence. I donated it to Locks of Love before 8th grade started, and am considering growing it out again because it ''was'' actually some really sexy hair, slightly curly at the end and nice and soft.

This troper has shaggy hair, large eyes, and, apparently, very red lips. Even when wearing reasonably masculine clothes (I generally don't, but whatever), everyone just assumes I'm a Pettanko. Everyone compliments my boyfriend on his pretty girlfriend when we're in public. This is part of the reason I'm into crossdressing.

This MTF troper (no transitioning) was mistaken for FTM by another transwoman at a Day of Remembrance vigil. Coupled with the fact that I've been "mistaken" for a girl when presenting male. Example: "Daddy, why does that lady have a mustache?"

This troper has been mistaken for a girl on several occasions, until they hear my voice

{{Subverted}} with this troper. How? Well, I have waist-length hair and have been told on several occasions that it makes me look like a girl. The people telling me this apparently didn't realise that I am, in fact, a girl.

I've got a rather long history of this, usually because of my skinny jeans. When people hear me talk, however, it's evident that I'm a male. On one occasion, whilst swaddled in a huge knee-length jacket, the couple I rushed by on my way into school muttered, "Is that a guy or a girl?" All they really saw was a black-clad blur with skinny jeans and long hair, so I guess it was acceptable. A year or so prior to that, my female friends manage to get a waist-down-only video of me, in skinny jeans, wearing my then-girlfriend's bright blue shoes. The fact that they were tiny on me gave me an unorthodox gait, and in the video, ''I'' thought I was looking at a girl walk.

This female Troper goes nuts for men like this. Unfortunately, I have only met one in my life - and he was bullied rather viciously for it, despite his incredible niceness.

This Troper keeps getting mistaken for a girl on Omegle.Pranks ensue.