I had recently went out and someone accused me of being transgender. I am not transgender or even a lesbian.
I don’t know that my feelings were hurt about being called transgender, but more for what it must feel like to actually be transgender and not “pass”. I imagine being androgynous could piss people off just the same.
I suddenly felt super unsafe and like somehow that gave the person who called me trans and the people with them permission to put their hands on me. I didn’t know what to do. It made me feel like I needed to prove I wasn’t to be safe and my mind was racing and from an outsiders perspective I may have looked insane because I literally just ran. For about a block.
has this happened to anyone else?
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When I was about 16, I went through an identity crisis and ended up shaving most of my hair off and getting a few facial piercings. There was this snobby brat 2 years below me who walked up to me one day at school and obnoxiously asked my friend (who was standing beside me) if I was his “transgender boyfriend”. We both sort of stared at her like she’s an idiot, then she got really close to me and said “you’re transgender scum” and walked away. I couldn’t help but laugh because it was such a ridiculous statement.
The next day she followed me to the lunch area during our lunch break and started making fun of my self harm scars and saying things like “Did you do this because you’re transgender? I bet your parents don’t want you”.
A few weeks later she saw me talking to her boyfriend in the courtyard because I was asking him about a class that we had together, and she came screaming and running towards me and then started trying to push me over. I managed to punch her over onto the concrete, she went to hospital with a busted lip. She still has a big scar on her lip from that punch, and she never tried talking to me again. Lol.
I’m not transgender, I was born a female, and I very obviously look like a female, there’s no confusion. She was just being an idiot.