How Do You “Label” Yourself?
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When I tell people part of my business focuses on “transgender women”, I get a lot of responses like:
“Oh, you mean drag queens?”
Or …
“So you work with transvestites?”
There is a lot of ignorance among the general public and I get annoyed when people mislabel “my girls”. The fact that there are so many lifestyles and labels under the transgender umbrella only adds to the confusion …
I’ve been thinking a lot about this and would love to hear YOUR thoughts on the topic.
So let me ask you …
Which label do YOU choose for yourself? One of the typical ones, like “crossdresser”, “transwoman”, “t-girl”, etc? Or are you like some of the gals I work with who don’t identify with ANY of these labels?
How do you feel about labels, anyway? Do you hate being labeled or do you wear your chosen label with pride?
Leave thy comments below! 
Love,
Lucille
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I’d lable myself as a woman. The only time am labled anything from anyone else is when I speak, but that dosen’t change who I am.
I don’t know what i am. I consider myself a transgenderist since I dress like a girl and wants cosmetic surgery but don’t want SRS. I just want to be called a girl or woman in short.
I am in a situation where I came to understand ME after I was already married and have an unsupportive SO. I tend to refer to myself as Transgender…No-Op sounds so noncommittal. I’m leaving my options open…
i use m2f transwoman since most people understand (in their own way) one or the other terms, also use transgender in conversations when it clarifies – only word i avoid is female except for the phrase female identity. in my own head i’m a woman, or if necessary a male-bodied woman.
I am a woman. In talking with people about ftm & mtf’s I say either I am transexual or a transwoman; but in everyday life I am simply a woman and accepted as such.
If anyone would ever ask if I was a crossdresser or transvestite, I very quickly in no uncertain terms straighten them out.
Hi,
Well can only be a woman, what i have used over the years are,
Transfemale when talking with people in the begining some 16 years ago. an intersexed woman is realy what i am though most people know about myself & my background & they can make up thier own mind allthough most accept im a woman, & many know i am. just one who is some what different,
& those who know me dont care any way they have accepted who i am the way i am, & even the way i look or as i say dont look.
& when youv been in front of many 1000′s of people & people meet you they dont have a problem,
So when all said & done im just a woman.
..noeleena…
I like Winter’s “Twin Spirit girl”. I use crossdresser or tranvestite but don’t like either one as they make one sound “odd” which we are definitely not.
Krystyna