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 Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.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
I say my gender is transwoman
I am totally female inside and sadly, male outside. I am transgendered ,but I would prefer to be labeled as female or woman.
Mentally, I am totally woman. Physically, I am totally male. Childhood was difficult, as while I wanted to join the girls to play with dolls and wearing dresses and high heels, I was carried off to play football with the boys in the street. A dilemma that I continue to experience in my 60s. A member of the Third Sex is perhaps the best definition. Given a choice? Woman any day. My wife knows and helps me out. She even assists me with ideas and things to wear when I go out for a walkabout in the neighbourhood….always in the evening, when there’s a drizzle, and preferably carrying an umbrella
You and I feel the same and share like views.
It is good to know there are sisters like you, Daphne. Perhaps we could one day exchange experiences…..
I call myself a t-girl or say that I’m trans*.
I regard myself as a gynephilic transwoman. Calling myself this and this is the only label I ever use as stopped me obtaining treatment in the UK. My doctor/councilor says I will never get treatment if I dont have a boyfriend. I would rather die than ever have a boyfriend. I refuse to lie just to tick a doctors check-list. I was born with male genitalia but I regard myself as a femme-lesbian and that is why I married a lesbian. Unfortunately she couldnt wait for me to obtain treatment and ran-off with a genetic woman. My current wife knows of my situation but says if I get treatment she will take our daughter and leave so I feel down most of the time as my femme self is again repressed. I am 52 and been dressing since I was 5. Puberty was the hardest time ever. My doctor diagnosed me with gender dysphoria when I was 11 but refused to give me treatment. Sorry to waffle on but this page appears to be the only place where I’m not judged
Let it out dear many of us are in similar if not the same boat. It is wrong that treatment isn’t available to you since your sexual identity is lesbian. How out dated.
I am a crossdresser, I enjoy both sides of gender. In fact my best days are those when during a 24 hour period I dress male for 12 and femme for 12.
I consider myself a girl very feminineI am NOT a 24 /7 girl but I’m trying eventually someday I’ll make it there
Labels are what define us.
I am transvestite, photographer, magician, chef and many other things.
If you pick any one of those labels you immediately form a picture of me. eg photographer, you see me, camera in hand aiming at my subject or magician, there I am pulling a rabbit out of a top hat. People don’t judge me when they have those images of me. So when we come to the label, transvestite another image forms in peoples minds and if they can’t deal with that image it is their problem, not mine. I love who & what I am and that is all that matters