Choosing the right words to describe your gender identity can feel tricky. For transgender and non-binary people, finding a label that fits is personal and important.
Using respectful language matters. Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.
At the same time, you are more than a label. What matters most is how you choose to define yourself, no matter where you are on the gender spectrum.
Do you have a label that feels right – like crossdresser, transgender woman, non-binary, or something else?
I’d love to hear your thoughts, so let’s continue the conversation in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
i consider myself as female so lady or a women after all gone through enough in life for this
I label myself happy en femme when female dress and labels don’t really matter in my world. Just be a decent human being and treat others with respect whether you are dress male or female.
My 2 cents.
I cross dress, ergo, I am a crossdresser.
I wish it were so simple!
I don’t know what I am. I feel conflicted because I haven’t accepted myself . Shame and guilt still has its choking grasp on me . Small town USA keeps me trapped at home literally in the closet. If I were to label myself , I would say I am twospirit. You all understand, I wish the rest could .
I don’t care for “labels”…they connotate something bad/evil/whatever that must be avoided at all costs.
I prefer the term “human being”.
Who am I bothering? Like Eddie Izzard has said, and I quote, “I don’t wear “women’s clothes”…I wear MY clothes. I bought them.”
In my experience, if you don’t draw any attention to yourself, the general public doesn’t care. I’m not hurting anyone with my choices. If I choose to go out as my feminine self, so be it. You’re the one with the problem if my choice upsets you. And, if the thought of someone portraying the opposite gender upsets you that much (be it male to female, or female to male), then *you* have far more serious issues in your life that sorely need to be addressed.
I describe myself as an Intergendered transsexual. I don’t much hold with labels except to say each of us labels ourselves as we see fit. That’s the problem that conventional heterosexist psychiatrist have been pondering over for year. Our community won’t allow doctors to pigeon-hole us.
I have lived with Labels all my life, so I choose not to label myself, other than just say that I am just been me . I like been me. That fact that I like to dress as a Woman, be a Woman, I am stilL me. and I love it. Its how see and feel about myself internally.
but I definitly see myself as a Woman and I feel that way as well, and thats important to me, 🙂
Some people call it gender disphoric, I call it gender uphoric! Actually , I consider myself a crossdresser. All that other stuff seems too clinical . I just want to have fun with it all even though I am very serious about all this of it .