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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 tell them that I’m a person, a human being first. Then, a woman with a few minor birth defects which I’m working on overcoming.
As I have written in other posts, I define myself as femandro, maybe 70% female and 30% male, but the female part seems to be slowly increasing over time. Maybe this is a result from the stuff I am using for some minor breast enlargement? I know hormones affects the mind, so that can be a reason. I dont go for a “real woman” bust, I feel too male for that, and I doubt I ever will become a true TS, but something like a big A cup would be perfect for me. Unluckily I am not there yet, the growth is sloooooow… On the other hand I live with the femandro feeling 24/7 so I am not male one day and female another, I have one single role instead of two, and so on. And my mind does not match my body. So if there had been a third official sex, androgyne, I would has classified myself as a feminine MTA preop TS.
Labels, about like a pigeon hole, yet never the right one. Don’t really like the labels, but yet somehow needed to somewhat better explain ourselves as to who and what we are.
Big problem is the Television and people getting an idea that what they see on shows like RuPaul is what we all are. People seem to think crossdresser and drag queen are one and the same. Also problem in that somehow media and educational institues seem to confuse transgender as being one and the same as transsexual.
still not be able to grow my breast atleast a cup… tried number of natural herbs but no use. kindly help me…. so that i can identify myself as t girls. i am regular follower of your site.
There was a time when I would have accepted any term that placed me in a female character. I wanted to be just like the model in a magazine and when I walked down the street everyone would stop to look at least for a moment. In some cultures being transgender is a powerful thing. You are neither man nor woman but of both sexes. There is a lot to that. I want to be a woman and I have physically a lot of the attributes of a woman yet in some places I am still tempered by that male part of me. I hate, with a passion, those male attributes that still show themselves. I want to be a card carrying woman yet when a man stares at me on an early weekend morning and I am in my leotard and short jean skirt getting the paper off of the walk way I can feel his eyes and I know what he imagines. You see from a distance, breast slightly exposed and long legs I kind of look the part. On the other hand, that female half, I think pervert get a life. I don’t like Trans anything and don’t even think about sissy or homosexual. I would never be with a man as a man. As a woman that’s another story. I’m not a cross dresser because I only want to be seen as a woman. I guess I just want to be seen and addressed as how I appear and forget the politics of it all. I am just Jennie and Thank-You very much.
Well thought out and well said Jennie. I like the way you put it all. I kind of wonder sometimes what anyone is thinking when they see me or any other non-genetic woman. Is it perversity or is it “Wow, I’d like to meet her”? Whatever it is, as long as they respect what we feel is right for us is fine with me. It’s OUR life and we have the right to live as we choose. Thanx for sharing your thoughts!
Very eloquently stated Jennie. Beautiful words from a beautiful woman.
I consider myself a T-Girl. I try to present myself to the world as a women- even though it doesn’t work sometimes- and I’m going to try to start hormones ASAP; not sure about surgery yet.
As for how I describe myself, I say T-girl is good. Technically, I’m a crossdresser because I’ve not had surgery or gone thru the steps of identifying by documentation that I’m transgender or gender dysphoric. I so want to be a woman for the rest of my days so my “CDing” goes deeper than merely dressing and going out. I play to the world as a man in most of my life, but I have the desire to want to change. I feel kind of trapped because I like to eat and live with a roof over my head and I won’t shirk my responsibilities I signed up for so many years ago.
As for labels, many say they don’t like them, but we have to be called something. Without one, how shall we be called or able simply to be? EVERYTHING needs a name.
Your feminine side shines through very well. Best wishes to you.
Hello Daphne! Thank you so very much for the kind compliment! Best wishes back to you too.
Hi Lucille
I describe myself as a T-girl.
If certain people have a problem with my gender identity, then they are just not worth bothering with.
Love Richard