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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 regard myself as feminine and girlie.
I define myself a or as an transvestite or crossdresser
Transvestite for me. It was the first word I heard that I realised had a meaning for what I was, which please me because I thought that if somebody had bothered to come up with a word for something, then I couldn’t be the only one who did it. Plus with Eddie Izzard popularising it, it now has an extra pleasing ‘Action/Executive’ connotation to it.
I am a gi
Ok let’s try that again lol!
I am a girl!!
As that is the “label” that SHOULD HAVE BEEN on the door of the hospital room my mom stayed in to recover after I was born. But alas, nature gave me the wrong equipment. So after 30+ years, I’ve decided to return it. That being said, I guess I identify as transsexual. As I intend to take medical and surgical steps to make my outside match my inside. Though so far I have only taken baby steps 🙁
I’d consider myself as being a transgender woman!
Anyhow it is only a label. Another expression doesn’t really bother me!
Esther A.
Switzerland
Whatever label you choose you are beautiful also.
I consider my self as a girl or T-GIRL I am very Feminine and see my self as a girl or woman .Though I don’t always have a chance to dress Feminine I still feel Feminine and wear Bras Panties and slips daily. my inner self feel as a girl and i’m proud to be me.. Lots of Love.. Brooke..<3.. 🙂
I have always thought of myself as transgender.This label suits me because most of my life I would have preferred to be female.
It took a deep depression in 2012 for me to surface from in 2013 knowing my true gender even though my first recollection something wasn’t right when I was 4. During my depression I started dressing in female clothes which I found comforting and initially arousing. However, that soon changed to full reasoning of my true gender, female. However, given my love for my then wife I found transitioning difficult. Then in a moment of emotional breakdown I decided it was time to be true to myself on February 1, 2014. So from February 8, 2014, I’ve been living fully as a female, and now about to start hormone treatment. I see myself as a female but officially as a transgender female and part of the Gender Diverse Community. The reality of trans life however, is I’ve been discriminated out of my job and now on unemployment benefits. Not going to stop this little black duck though.
Well said. You thrive little black duck.