When it comes to expressing your gender identity, navigating labels can be tricky. For those identifying as transgender or non-binary, finding the right words is essential.
Obviously, it’s important for people to use language that respects and reflects your identity. Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.
However, it’s important to remember that you’re more than just a label!
Ultimately, what matters most is how you personally want to be addressed, regardless of where you fall on the gender spectrum.
So, let’s talk about it!
Do you have a particular term or label that resonates with you – such as crossdresser, transgender woman, non-binary person, or something else?
I’m eager to hear your thoughts, so let’s continue the conversation in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
I am proud to call myself a transgender girl, It is a term I only learned about 5 years ago. I’m 65 and for most of my life I thought I was the only person in the world with gender dysphoria. I now know what i was created tob and am happier than I ever was.
Saw you sing at Woman’s Club Festival in Penns Grove. You and your wife were wonderful! I give you allot of credit to live your life your way to be happy. Everyone should do that!
Well the thing is, we’ve aligned ourselves with the gay community, for whom labels are very important. They have reclaimed those labels but it’s not the same for us, we are so fragmented and diverse that we have a lot of labels and people who either don’t want them at all, or want to identify with them completely and place themselves in a bubble. It’s hard to see how all of that can be reconciled and its no surprise there is so much ignorance about us when we give out to many mixed messages.
Beautiful!!!!!
Labels are for people who are ignorant of a certain subject. I don’t believe in them. The Trans word has slowly become the word to discribe everyone and I am not wild about it. I am a straight hetero crossdresser. I think transgender is a bit of a stretch and the wrong word to discribe the 85% of CD’s in the world. xo Julie
I am a girl. I was born a girl with a birth defect called an XY
chromosome. Anyway I identity as a woman.
First and foremost, I try to be a lady. But if I had to choose a label, I would identify as a transwoman.
Kathryn, you are so right, yes I too try to identify as a lady first and foremost. It’s obvious from your photo you are a classy woman. I only wish I looked as beautiful as you.
Good luck
Heather X
You’re much too kind, Heather doll. Thank you.
Kind Regards,
Kathryn X
There are several girls here who, in a quiet way, object to being labelled and I do somewhat understand and agree. These modern times seem to insist on labels,I am not sure why. However if I was to label myself then the best definition I am able to use is Transgender Woman. I am a mature male finally putting right what I always wanted to be. I so envy the younger people today who have the courage and focus to just ‘go for it’ and not make the mistake as I did and leave it later in life.
Love to you all, heed my advice, DONT LEAVE IT-DO IT NOW !
Heather XX
I am first and foremost a human being. I’ve really never given my identity much more thought than that. In my work life, I present as a man, and am seen as quite virile. In the balance of my life, I more typically present as a woman than a man, and am typically seen as rather brassy woman. In the words of Popeye, “I yam what I yam.”
When I tell people that I am transgendered. They immediately say “Are you going to have a sex change”. I tell them that transgender is an umbrella term for … When I first called a transgender store to inquire about her products and services, she asked me my fem name. I had never thought of one. I told her that I used to have a pet rat name Crystal. She said “ok, Crystal”. I added a last name later “Lin” because I am Chinese. When I fill out a survey and there is a box marked transgender, I will put my X there.