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Pictured: A video grab of Lucas revealing how he is mistaken for a woman ‘every day’ despite being a cisgender man.
‘I’m mistaken for a woman every day – but I’m a cisgender man’
A cisgender man has revealed he is mistaken for a woman “every day” – with people even stopping him in public to comment.
Lucas McCarson says that, despite being born male and identifying as a man, people regularly think he was either born female or a transgender woman.
The 21-year-old, who works as a barista, went viral on TikTok recounting an exchange he had with a customer at work.
In the clip, which garnered nine million views, a woman presumably believed he was living as a transgender woman, and he claims she told him “God can bring you back from this”.
And the exchange is far from out of the ordinary for the young man.
“I am mistaken for a woman every day, in almost everything I do,” Lucas, from Kentucky, US, told What's The Jam.
“I was mistaken for a woman all the way back to middle school, even with short hair.
“I have been blessed with my mom’s Filipino genes.
“I think I have the perfect combination of culturally feminine characteristics.
“No matter how I dress or act, people automatically assume I am a woman.”
“As a cis-man who has never had to transition, it made me feel extremely insecure.
“I have never identified with anything other than my assigned gender, so I often find myself angry when people look at me and often treat me as a woman/trans person.
“I wake up like this.
“I don’t ‘dress up as a woman’ – I put clothes on.
“I don’t ‘talk like a woman’ – I just speak.”
Lucas shared a video of himself recounting the story on TikTok, where he explained the customer “looked him up and down”, grabbed hold of his hands and said: “As a Christian woman, I feel determined to let you know that God has you in his hands.”
He explains: “Usually the type of
2024-04-09
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