Im a cis guy with a high voice and I get misgendered over the phone fairly frequently. Even in person with a mask on sometimes, which is fun because when I take it off I have a mustache and I’ve gotten to watch people’s brains break in real time.
Oh absolutely! I definitely understand being on the wrong side of gender expectations, but as a dude it really is easy mode comparatively and I have nothing to complain about. It really helped me understand my partners transition issues though, and I’m here to fuck with normies trying to pigeon hole every person they interact with into a gender binary.
It happened more pre moustache and pre mobile ordering, but it was usually a “go ahead and pull up to the window ma’am” and then a brief “deer in the headlights” stare and then pretending it didn’t happen when I got to the window. Not to lean too hard into stereotypes but having long hair and driving a Subaru wagon probably contributed as well lol.
It’s probably related but apparently my voice sounds really different over the phone too, to the point where coworkers who know me in person have though someone else answered my phone the first time they called me lol.
Im a cis guy with a high voice and I get misgendered over the phone fairly frequently. Even in person with a mask on sometimes, which is fun because when I take it off I have a mustache and I’ve gotten to watch people’s brains break in real time.
Oh absolutely! I definitely understand being on the wrong side of gender expectations, but as a dude it really is easy mode comparatively and I have nothing to complain about. It really helped me understand my partners transition issues though, and I’m here to fuck with normies trying to pigeon hole every person they interact with into a gender binary.
Are you me? This is almost word for word what I was about to comment. I also get misgendered in drive thrus pretty frequently.
Drive thru is one I haven’t had any issues with, but that does sound downright comical potentially
It happened more pre moustache and pre mobile ordering, but it was usually a “go ahead and pull up to the window ma’am” and then a brief “deer in the headlights” stare and then pretending it didn’t happen when I got to the window. Not to lean too hard into stereotypes but having long hair and driving a Subaru wagon probably contributed as well lol.
It’s probably related but apparently my voice sounds really different over the phone too, to the point where coworkers who know me in person have though someone else answered my phone the first time they called me lol.