This was many years back, being called these names made me want to transition to a boy as a teen because I was confused. Then in college, I experimented with femininity but once I became young adult, I was back to dressing (mostly) hyper masculine and many STILL called me a "boy". During my hyper masculine "phase", I had this girl trying to find out my pronouns(she was part of some college LGBTQIA+ and a bit younger than me, so that made me uncomfortable for those two reasons) and had a crush on me, it was awkward...

Now I am just androgynous/basic clothes. Nothing overtly masculine or feminine I suppose. I like men's clothes but hate I can't dress hyper masculine anymore because I think of those times of getting bullied. I also had a rowdy group of guys come into my former job and call me a "motherfucker" and tried to start some shit, which was scary, but my former boss defended me lol. But when I dress feminine, I get catcalled and stalked. I feel like I can't win. I just try to hide and look as plain as possible.

In my mother's culture---well, technically both my mother and father's culture---I am "mixed race"---they are highly misogynistic. My mother used to say to me how much of an embarrassment I am to her whenever I dressed masculine...She wanted me to shave, wear makeup, pluck my caterpillar eyebrowes, wear tight "girly" clothes, straightened my "frizzy"(it was curly) hair, and she even gave me her USED underwear because "it didn't fit" her. I rejected it and she got FURIOUS with me and tried to control me. She also used to make very gross comments about my body all the time and slapping me on the butt which was highly uncomfortable, I say to her stop but she told me she can do what she wants since she's my mother and I can't take jokes. Yeah...

Idk, she was something else and a whole nother story. My father was no better, he used to control my mother too. She couldn't talk to men(including male coworkers and he was jealous when she talked to her brother), couldn't wear skirts, and he accused her of lying all the time.

But anyways lol, my maternal family is embarrased when I dress GNC and try to correct me and put me into certain gender roles, such as "women in the kitchen" and "men provide".

The reason why I fight back so hard against the transgender ideology is because it's sexist. Basically it's "You like XYZ? Then you're secretly a man! You like ABC? You're secretly a woman!". I hate it and trying to explain in real life to people falls on deaf ears that I gave up.