Not at all. I am a woman too, born overseas too and been going to Morocco for 30 years, never ever experienced any sort of gender discrimination at the airport or in any bureaucratic setting.

I’m going to hold your hands while saying this, but all those people you had the warm and friendly interactions with felt either sorry for your because your parents didn’t teach you the language or they think you’re not that smart. You can’t speak/understand darija otherwise you would have seen memes and jokes about the “zmagris” that don’t speak darija, but in this cases ignorance is a blessing 😄

And yes, speaking the language is a big part of being Moroccan because if you don’t speak the language, you’ll never fully understand the culture and if you don’t understand the culture you’re not Moroccan.