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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 identify as a transgender person. I still live as a man for protection of my family. I drive an over the road truck. It’s getting so difficult to keep living as I do. It feels as though more I become more and more depressed every day. I try very hard to keep a jovial appearance, but sometimes the depression gets the better of me.
Woman (at work), trans woman (most places), genderqueer (queer spaces, social media)
Labels are for jars and cans not people.
Hi Lucille,
Very simply, I’m a woman.
I don’t have a problem with labels, except when they’re used to demean people, or when someone uses a legitimate label in a demeaning way.
Thank you for all you do to give us wonderful advice, and for your support and encouragement.
Hugs,
Vanessa
I am a crosdresser, but I wish I could take it to the highest level of feminization. I believe most of us in this community would love a chance to experience what it would be like to live, even for just a day, as a biological woman. Getting our hair & nails done. Shopping, shopping & more shopping; Without judgement! Shoes, skirts, bags, jewelry, perfume & so much more! The feeling of full natural breast, soft skin with amazing curves & a desirable backside. I would totally be a girly girl & It sucks when I meet tom boys or women who don’t embrace this right of passage. Well, guess you can call me what ever you want; but I’d rather be carrying a shopping bag over a tool box any day.
I totally agree. I pray everyday to have a genetic woman’s body with all of the downsides. Being born as a mis-bodied woman is the greatest downside of all.
Daphne, I can’t imagine the amount of frustration and mixed emotions you must be dealing with on a day to day basis. I feel deeply for you & for the many individuals with the same emotional & physical challanges. Please don’t ever regret who you are. Our bodies are vessels, but who we truly are comes from within. In fact, if you were born a biological woman there’s a strong possibility that you never, ever would truly appreciate the body you would have possessed. Loyal family & friends know who you are. They embrace, support, love & accept you for the attributes which you posses; for your moral compass & your character. Be happy! Be who you are meant to be. You are lady, a lovely lady. The only difference between you and (most, not all) biologica women is that you can’t carry a baby. Thanks to the trailblazers before us, science, medical advances & technology we can alter our bodies to obtain almost any desired result. The physical is actually the easy part. If your struggling to be the woman you are, it most likely is more psychological. We are a community here, a family, and most off all supportive friends. What more can a gurl ask for 🙂 goodbye
Hi Lucille, I always hated labels! If I had to label myself, I would call myself a human being! I don’t call myself anything else, I ask the question… “Why do I need a label?” I consider everyone a human being. Diana
I consider myself a cross-dresser although society seems to have decided that I am transgender. Occasionally I like to dress up and present as a woman. I am only interested in a 100% transformation and nothing less. For example, wearing female undergarments under my male clothing does nothing for me.
Woman. Or if I’m referred to as a girl, with an “i”, not a “u” (as in “gurl”). I really don’t like to have much of a fuss made about the trans part. If I’m to stand out from genetic women, it is to be my fashion sense, not my biological origins.
The terms “shemale”, “transvestite”, even “crossdresser” either seem demeaning like I’m some mere fetish or freakshow or inaccurate to what I feel. I’d love to be able to move freely through the world as a female when I desire to without unwanted attention.