Whether they personally identify as female or not, feminine-presenting individuals tend to get gender stereotyped just as cisgender women do. People can find it confronting when a feminine-presenting person speaks openly about sex, for example. They aren’t expected to ask people out; they are expected to wait for someone else to pursue them. It can be difficult to adhere to these societal expectations, especially if a feminine-presenting person is sometimes masculine-presenting, as with drag queens.
Some people appreciate the term feminine-presenting because it seems inclusive of transgender people, drag queens, and others often marginalized and removes assumptions about their gender identity.
However, others feel feminine-presenting can be a derogatory term and that it’s more inclusive to simply refer to anyone presenting as female with traditional cisgender terms like woman or she. The terms can also be confusing to some people because some women are quite masculine appearing just as some men like to appear feminine. They can do this without attempting to look like a person of the opposite gender.