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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
First of all, I hate labels. Labels do not convey true meaning because of the ignorance that is out there. That ignorance gives so many different and wrong meanings to those labels that most of the time labels perpetuate that ignorance.
However, in the clinical sense, labels can be useful. So, that being said, in the clinical sense I consider myself Transgender/Transsexual simply because I do suffer from Gender Dysphoria.
I Consider myself transsexual and I present as either male or female how ever I wish. I prefer female but I have 63 years of extreem male to convert. I am just glad to finally be able to say I am transsexual without
doubt. To all of us out there salute!
Sheri
I’m just me!
I’m ok with labels as I think it helps us understand who we are. So for myself I like the label Transgender as a general description and cross dresser to be more specific. I will be 60 this year, and like Kathleen years ago I would only dress behind closed doors, now with the awareness and for the most part acceptance I get to be Robin and enjoy going out and doing things in public. It is great!
Hi Lucille, Jullan here as they say in TV.
Well, what do I feel as??? Difficult question really. Mast say that I feel something as 50/50 just now. It is something, and that is a thing that I think many trans ….. are feeling, as a hybrid car. Half petrol driven and half current. The sad thing is that I can NEVER become a real women. The operations is just polishing the outer parts but the inner parts are still the same old male. There doesn´t HT therapy make mor than give you some forms that resamble a women. It is like being an actor. You becom someone that you really is not for a while but go back to your real status as soon the show is over. BUT of cours, anything is better than the life I had befor getting out from the closet.
Big hug Lucille and may your god go with you!
Jullan from Sweden
Being labeled is part and partial of societies understanding of something they don’t understand. I wish I could be the female that I know I am inside without the judgement to others that don’t/won’t even try to understand. I am a Woman born in the wrong body, why should that be wrong? My Father would have tried to beat it out of me, my Mother knew I thing because she always called me by a feminized version of my name. However if I demonstrated my desire to be feminine she got pissed? Very confusing so I hid my real self and tried to cope with it. I would live as a Woman today but it would hurt family that would not understand. So I keep the pain and continue to be someone that I don’t feel like inside! So, I know this is confusing.
Evie
When it comes down to it with my friends and when I’m by myself, the only thing I really call myself is “tranny.” They know I can take it, and I am absolutely abhorrent of the “genderfluid, free spirit, other kin” who make other obnoxious claims.
When it comes to important things with family who don’t know and my gender happens to come up, I’ll hop back in the closet and be quiet for their sake. But for family who already know, I just say “trans.”
First time I ever told someone that I was a transvestite, they asked me: Do you perform?
So I had to explain that Iḿ not a dragqueen and that that is quite something else.
I call myself Transgender, for my tophalf is feminine, and sometimes I say T-girl, but mostly with people that will know that term.
I am not always feeling feminin, but somewhere in between. It depends on how I feel that day.
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