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 Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.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
Even though I am a crossdresser, when I transform myself into Heather and step out for dinner or shopping at the mall, I feel totally like a woman. So I guess I am somewhere between CD and Transgender.
I believe that there is a gender spectrum. I happen to be roughly in the centre, with aspects of what we regard as male or female, although I think that is a totally false dichotomy – everyone has varying aspects of both.
So, I am a person with certain personality traits. They are different from many other people’s personality traits.
And that’s it. I don’t think labels are really useful. In fact, they tend to cloud the issue.
The label I put on myself is transwoman.Even though I was not born a girl.I understand how some people have ignorance.I know how I felt the first time I went out dressed up as me.I hate when someone get’s mad when you call them a drag queen.But,always describes themselves going in drag.Or dressing up as a woman.I say I dress as me.Me being a woman.Not dressing as one.I got snickered at in a department store.I would just grab the panties and tell them to ring me up quick.I look back and laugh now.I don’t care if they know I wear panties.
If I were to label myself I would say just a sad human being. I have a closet full of clothes and shoes yet I never use much of it. I can’t commit to living full time because I’m afraid of losing my job and can’t commit to hormone therapy because I want children in my life. Yet I can’t for the life of me commit to a relationship because of fear that she would leave me as soon as I told her how I feel about myself. Feel like I’m locked in my own prison.
For the overall identity, I prefer Transgender. Getting more specific, I am dual- or bi- or ambi-gendered.
I would classify myself as a crossdresser. With my job, family I need to be a man. There are many things I love about being a man. But I have the side that loves putting on women clothing also.
I guess I would like to think of myself trapped in a mans body but would rather be able to be a women freely without all the judgmental criticism
I think since I live in the world as a man and at home & sometimes out as a woman. Bigendered works, the term “Trans” in the true sense covers that. I really don’t care what the world thinks though. Like so many have already said. I am just me.
i like the phrase ; I am just me .