I was out for a coffee today in a village in the Highlands with a GG friend. She knows I dress but I was presenting as a male, simply because it was too hot for a wig.
Someone obviously thought differently and entered the shop we were sitting outside. She was wearing a very red wig and a long navy and white print dress which I think had a big slit. It was almost certainly a crossdresser or TS or a very masculine woman. I mentioned to my friend that a man in a dress had just walked behind her and she did not even turn round. She said she had seen lots of men in womens clothes on a recent trip to Edinburgh.
I then went to a nearby town on my own. A person of ambiguous gender in a short print dress with a severe short back and sides haircut, no obvious bosom and quite a masculine walk went into the supermarket before me and then left it just in front of me.
No one reacted to either. Not so much as a second glance or whispered comment.
I knew from my many excursions in Scotland dressed that people take it in their stride here but I always assumed there was some subtle staring and comment once you were out of sight or earshot. Apparently not. If we are this laid back in the Highlands you are certainly OK in a UK city. No one cares except you.