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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 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