Some brief thoughts re FtM trans stuff
I got read as male consistently in Nottingham. I got sirred pre-T there. I'm (happily) seen as male outside of London/Brighton/Manchester. I'm ssometimes/often een as a butch lesbian in large metropolitan cities, which is... a thing.
I'm not sure how often I get stared at and why; I often do reasonably attention-grabbing things like yoga in public (back issues), am very fat and am frequently wearing hi-vis. Being trans is not necessarily the most noticeable thing about me!
(Expanded/edited reply to a Facebook post about being gender variant while visiting a small city.)