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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 identify as gender fluid (GF) and like to describe myself as a “part time girl.” I become a girl whether I’m dressed like one at the moment or not.
Some of the other label feel clunky and don’t really seem to fit me.
If it comes down to it I guess CD or TV is OK, but neither really goes far enough and I feel like “transwoman” and even t-girl imply a more full time status.
My label? Call me a mess!! I guess technically I’m a crossdresser, but I feel so much more like a woman than anything. My wife doesn’t know how far this has gone in my head. I wear panties every day, I never stand at a urinal (yuck!!) and I would love to transition more than I am. Still hiding it from the public, though. Thus I’m not actually a transvestite or transgendered, even though I feel like it. So, yeah, I’m a mess!!! 🙂
I can totally identify with that! I’m also technically a crossdresser, because I cannot transition or even live full time as a woman. Before anyone asks ‘why not?’ I can only say that my life is way too complicated for me to deal with it (and yes, I’m seeing some shrinks), if I added the whole extra burden of becoming a woman it would simply be way too more than I can handle.
So, yes, I’m a mess too 😛
I prefer to be labeled as a woman, which is something that I can pull off. Nobody gives me a second look, except some men and that is a good thing, lol. In several restaurants the waitresses know me as a woman regular customer. I even have credit cards with Robyn’s name on them. If I must self identify I say that I am a transsexual. I’ve only had to do that once, and that was to a friend who spotted me. I am entering more complex social interactions with women, so I may want to tell women that I become friends with. All the staff at my endocrinologist’s office address me as a female.
I only really truly admitted to myself I was a transvestite in the last five years although I have been dressing since junior school (40 yrs ago). It was a great relief just to admit to myself. I prefer the term crossdresser or eonist. people have strange perceptions of the word transvestite or tranny and it conjours completely the wrong image in their minds. I have to put alot of effort in to be passable and I take pride in the pure art of what I
I am a transgender woman and have always though of my self as a woman. For many years I though myself as a lesbian. Until I felt the love of a good man.
I consider myself a “part time” crossdresser. I don’t get to do it often but when I do dress I try to be as passible as I can. My girlfriend is very helpful with my makeup as she went to school for makeup and fashion. She calls me her blank canvas to create art on each time I dress. I think she like it more then I do.
I really, really, don’t like labels. But people are so insistent on categorizing other people. It is rather annoying. I was so pleased to see Raven-Symoné speak up on this very topic on the Oprah show. In my opinion she handled the subject of using “lables” with such grace and dignity. It is individuals like her that give me hope for the future of the human race.
More to your point Lucille, I just want to be known and respected as a person of the human race. I would love to be accepted as the person I am inside, and be able to express my inner spirit without judgment. With some resignation, I would accept the label of a transgendered woman – as sometimes we do need to disclose certain things for legal and medical reasons.
I can’t thank you enough for the support you have unknowingly provided myself over the last few years. Keep up the good work!
Many Hugs
Kristy
LOL – First time poster, Sorry Dana! didn’t mean to hijack your thread, Not quite sure how I got there 🙂
Kristy
I like to think of myself as “gender-fluid.” I’ve no interest ingoing full time or in transitioning, so I’d call myself a ‘crossdresser.”
Woman! Although proud to be a trans woman, I’m a woman spirit, mind, and soon completely physically after srs. Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s though, when so little was known, and newer terms had’nt come into use, I thought I was a transvestite, and that it was a disorder, as it was considered especially then, and still is as your own experience proves. Thanks again Lucille, very important top