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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* Seiyuu [[Hiro Yuki]] looks, sounds, and acts like a 12-year-old girl despite being over 40 years old. Getting his sex ''right'' the first time is probably rarer than mistaking it. Also, another seiyuu, [[Kouki Miyata]], says he's been frequently mistaken for a woman because of his high, effeminate voice.
* Two female seiyuu examples: [[Romi Paku]] is often mistaken for a "New-Half" because of her "husky voice". Also, Wakako "[[Kujira]]" Matsumoto plays completely convincing older males (including Orochimaru, who also has his own entry in this page) because she sounds exactly like a guy. Whenever a female character has a suspiciously masculine voice, it's probably her. Actually, she's managed to create ''double [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] situations'' -- at least I have once thought a woman played by her was male because she sounded like a man. Wow.
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** We humans are so used to the idea of human females being pretty that when one first encounters the world of birds, it can be rather jarring. You see, among many birds, the ''males'' tend to be pretty while the ''females'' are actually rather drab. This actually makes sense; if the female is the one caring for the young, you don't want ''her'' to be the one that's all eye-catching. Leave that to the male, who can draw a predator's eye away from the nest.
** And with birds that color-wise look more or less the same regardless of gender -- thinking of raptors here -- it's usually the female that's bigger.
** Then there are Chickens. Hens and Roosters are easy to tell apart
** This was invoked in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'', where Count D invites a group of young society women and young society drag queens to tea at his shop. They watch a pair of feminine-looking dancers -- who are in reality, male peacocks.
** Parrots, on the other hand, look pretty much the same, and have to be DNA-tested to find out their sex. If your breeding pair aren't, it's often because they're both the same sex.
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* Quite a few people thought Chris Crocker (of [[Memetic Mutation|"LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!"]] fame) was a girl. A few still do.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ZCdXkKtd8 ZJemptv a.k.a. Zinnia Jones], a video maker on Youtube, has this happen ''constantly''. A brief look in the comments section (of any video on the channel) will prove this true. For the record, Zinnia's actually a (gay) cisgendered man who likes to dress in feminine style.
* Because his [[Author Avatar]] is [[Cute Kitten|genderless]] and one of the female characters carried the same name as his, [[Kagami Yoshimizu]], the creator of ''[[Lucky Star]]'', was wrongly thought as female by many -- he [[Lampshaded]] one when a male proposed to him at a Taiwanese convention, and now it seemed that even the American DVD release also confused his gender, calling him ''Ms''. Yoshimizu
* Before ''[[Discworld]]'' became such a success, many assumed Terry Pratchett was a woman due to the [[Gender Blender Name]] and the overtly feminist ''[[
* Author Tracy Hickman has gotten so used to [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] that he sometimes introduces himself at fantasy conventions by saying "Tracy couldn't come, so she sent me".
* [[Lady Gaga]] is often mistaken for a [[Drag Queen]] due to her outlandish style.
* Christina Aguilera was accused of stealing
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' once ran an article about all the plus-sides to the NBA mandating formal attire for public appearances. One of them was "You can now tell the difference between the NBA and WNBA players." The accompanying picture showed a confused autograph-seeker trying to choose between two tall, muscular, short-haired, earring-sporting b-ball players. However, you could just barely make out breasts on the one on the right.
* Take a look at this picture of [["God Is Love" Songs|Contemporary Christian Music]] singer and ''[[American Idol]]'' alum Jason Castro in the picture [http://www.christianpost.com/article/20101109/jason-castro-im-a-christian-in-whatever-i-do/ from this Christian Post article].
* As one story goes, the California police were looking for a man who had stolen a motorcycle. They found a man and bike matching the description and pulled him over... only for it to turn out to be ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' actress [[Kristen Johnston]], who '''is''' quite tall and broad-shouldered for a woman.
* The new{{when}} adverts for confused.com feature the logo as a woman while it was often assumed she was male. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925020903/http://support.confused.com/confusedcom/topics/absolute_outrage_ruined_my_2010 Apparently] the logo was modelled after the founder of the website, Kate Armstrong, and was always meant to be a woman.
** It seems fitting that confused.com would live up to its name in such a way, though.
* Take a look at Serbian-Australian model [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106181320/http://www.ftape.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AndrejPejic-iD-ThomasLohr04.jpg Andrej Pejic]. Now look at him [https://web.archive.org/web/20140531070017/http://www.ftape.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AndrejPejic-iD-ThomasLohr02.jpg without his shirt].
* Youtube guitarist makmakmakochan has pages and pages of comments debating their gender.
* Australian singer/performer Courtney Act. Singer of the Top 30 (Australia) hit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Plu8IvNvo "Rub Me Wrong"]. Once made FHM's Top 100 Sexiest Women. Made the finals of the first season of Australian Idol, and even got a record deal out of it. That's a guy. Not a transsexual, a guy.
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