Sometimes when you don’t think you can pass, it might feel safer to present male or ambiguous. Unfortunately, it’s also common for those transfems to underestimate how feminine they still are and fail to pass as male. For example, I tried to boymode when traveling through a conservative state, yet still “malefailed” because I had fully transitioned to using a feminine voice and couldn’t revert it on the fly. Looking androgynous enough to have family friends think I was always a girl for years didn’t help either.