Slash McCoy
I freehand dog rockets
Had the same thing happen.....
I was substitute teaching at a middle school once and during one of the periods, I had a student who had long curly hair with neon colored bracelets on. I passed out some worksheets and told one of the students to pass the paper back to her. Everyone, just stopped for a second and starting laughing. The student I was referring to was male and laughed along with everyone else. I apologized to him and he said, "It's okay. I get it all the time."
Quite possibly this was a transgendered individual, in which case your gender confusion might have actually been taken as a compliment. (We have a lot of gender nonconformists here in New Orleans.) If the male student was really bothered by being mistaken for female, he probably would wear a different hairstyle and ditch the neon bracelets.
About 20 years ago, a tipsy but attractive young lady I met at a party followed me out to my truck, where I had a cooler full of beer. We had us a couple and we were getting quite cozy and comfortable with one another, when her parents came, yanked the door open, glared at me, snatched her out of my truck, and the mother said, "I hope someday YOU have to go hunting for YOUR 16 year old daughter and find her swapping body fluids with some drunken sleazebag redneck in a pickup truck!"
Oops... she sure looked older than that!