Blanked.
I have been experiencing things like all my life, I have vivid memories of being insulted that will stay with me forever. Even people who knew of me but didn’t know me did it,
I grew up in a village too, i think that city living helps. Ambiguity.
My problem was with family rather than strangers, especially my father who spent years ranting and raving that we must never be seen together in public. Shouting, " what will people say what will people think" of him if we were ever seen together.
The dumbest creatures on Earth are teenagers. Even children are smarter.
It's like humans regress through teen years and early 20's. Then start to smart up again.
You can just ignore the idiots. Because they're idiots. They'll probably grow up to be miserable pathetic creatures anyway.
Before I started transitioning to male this used to happen to me around 20 times a week, because of the footwear I wear to manage a disability. Mostly middle aged men but sometimes younger men/boys. Since I changed my wardrobe to men's clothes and started taking T it's rare, maybe once or twice a month. Footwear hasn't changed.
Unfortunately children of that age will always do things like this. It's in their nature, they still need to mature. You won't be the only one they do this to so please don't take it personally and let them upset you.
Last year I went past my local Tesco and there was a group of boys and girls of that age and they were laughing as I went past. It's a child/teen thing.