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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 currently go by transgender woman. I havn’t started transitioning yet so I guess that’s the least awkward description. Labels are uncomfortable but they exist for functional reason. They great thing is that they can be transcended!
I consider myself a transsexual.
And a very attractive one too.
Thank You Daphne.
I just see myself as a woman. I hate labels but I suppose a “woman” is a label as well 🙂
I agree it’s sad that we are taught to label rather than accept.
I would probably normally call myself a transwoman. I would think of myself as transexual (ie born in the wrong body), rather than transvestite/ crossdresser because it is about what I feel inside me rather than what I am wearing. I am only really just starting on my transition, but I guess some day I will drop the ‘trans’ and just call myself a woman. I am probably quite unusual in this, but I actually quite like it when people use terms of endearment like “babes”, or “sweetie” to me and I really love it when a gay male friend of mine whom I have known for years calls me ‘darling’ because it feels like he is affirming my feminity. I am OK about being called a “T-girl” because it sounds to me like we are all girls together having fun (cue for a quick burst of Cyndi Lauper). I prefer not to be called a shemale, but I am not going to get upset about someone doing so if that is the only way they have to describe me. And you would have to be a really good friend and I would need to be quite sure you were joking for you to get away with calling me a little trannie whore!
I prefer Stephanie, she, her
I guess i would class myself as a cross dresser as i love being fully dressed en femme as often as possible, normally mornings and evenings every day. I feel extremely comfortable in my girly clothes and just adore wearing vintage seamed nylons and lingerie.
Caroline
I am what I was born. A woman born with a birth defect that I will live with the rest of my life. No labels needed.
Generally, I think labels aren’t useful. Sexuality is on a spectrum and everybody is slightly different. I use the term t-girl because it is imprecise. It lets you know that I’m not hetero, but that’s it.