Hey Mikell - Congratz for getting out and public!
Sounds a little like I've read about others experiences, but I share your confusion about terminology... perhaps it's like parts of England used to be: two valleys and three villages away and they talk a completely different dialect... :facepalm:
Hopefully you were made to feel welcome..? I'd also hope that the fact that you are obviously part-time in your presentation wasn't somehow held against you..? And interesting about FtM numbers - perhaps it's just the fact that males CD more in a part-time sense... Were there any other part-time folk or just you?
(All these questions... it's like I'm Cardinal Biggles...)
Katey x