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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
Hi Lucille,
I would call myself transgender. Although everyone is right about people putting labels on each other, ( I am sure people only do this so they can feel superior to one another). After all we are of God’s making and surely only the creator would be allowed to put labels on people. And I’m not preaching its just a passing thought.
Vinessa
I consider myself ‘transgender’ and don’t mind “labels” as that is just how people (us TG/CD, etc. included) can ‘figure’ something. I’m just ending vacation, sitting in the restaurant in the hotel where I was staying and having dinner with my (step)daughter. When the owner comes over to talk and serve us (or the waiter the night before who knows my daughter), I have no problem at all with saying something like: “I was married to her mom and am on vacation to visit her grave and see my children”. No problems and, so far, I haven’t had any bad reactions from anyone. This is how it is, and I accept it as fact…I’m transgender and am a woman. When someone asks, and it happens sometimes, I simply tell them that I’m ‘transgender’, I’m a woman inside me, have been all my life”. The female has been fighting against the male personality all her life in order to not be submerged and hidden. Now, now that I’m single, I do live my life (especially this whole week on vacation) as a woman, as soon as I get off work, I’m no longer male, it’s just plain and simple…Allison.
I consider my self a male who likes to wear womens clothing from time to time. I do not wish to transition completly. Also I am not attracted to men,But I do have a feminine side and I try to portray my self as a woman sometimes.I guess that’s a Cross-dresser.
Lucille and friends,
Calpernia Addams tweeted today, “You’re so beautiful, I thought you were a woman.” She IS a woman and so am I. That is the label that most people that know me will put on me. I’ve known some of the people that know that I am still transitioning have, on more than one account, forgotten that I was ever anything else. And really, in my mind, I have always been a woman. Who can say otherwise?
I went to a lesbian meetup coffee recently. There was a woman there that for the most part could pass. We all went around the room introducing ourselves, and when it was her turn this deep voice seemed so inappropriate. I don’t mean to be a snob, perhaps I’m a bit too judgmental, but I have put out the effort to show the world who I truly am. When someone wants to be a woman, as opposed to a person that is a woman (genetic or otherwise), and doesn’t put the effort into presenting as a woman, then they may not get the label they are looking for.
I was at a lesbian dance. It was a tiny venue, and I had just had a pole dancing lesson so I wasn’t on the dance floor all that much. Two women at my table started talking about the lgbt friendly clubs in the area. One of them that they mentioned was described as a “tranny bar”. I don’t like that term. Then one said that the bar was a fun place and that she likes trannies. All good and well, but what they were referring to was either the drag queens or the very scantily dressed t-girls. Again, the way one presents is the way they will be labelled. Go figure that they were so comfortable saying this because they saw me as a fellow woman.
So, be careful of the label you put on yourself. You may not like it when someone reads it back to you.
Meliss@
As much as I absolutely despise labels on people, this is one area where I DO put a “label” on me….I am a woman that happens to have been born on the wrong side of the gender railroad. I am NOT crossgendered, transgendered or anything of the like……I AM A WOMAN ! And proud of what I’ve accomplished – so far….
I wish i could say i am all woman, but i cant, i do not feel or look femine at all. i am saving up so i can buy the mp3’s so i can believe i am woman than next step is to get the surgery to become a woman. when that happens, idc what ppl label me, cuz i will be all woman
I prefer TG or Trangendered, I know they are more umbrella terms but since I don’t think I fit any one category, using a broader term works for me.
unfortunatly, i see myself as a girl, but am traped in a mans body. i wish i could get the surgerys so i could look like one, and im trying to sace the money so i can buy the hypnosis mp3’s so i can act like one, but when im done, i will be a woman, no matter what label people give me