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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 have gone thru many versions and definitions. I started out as a child secretly wearing my sister’s clothes. In my early teens I move to a cross dresser status. By my late teens my friends found out about it so while it still remained in private at least I didn’t have to scramble to hid my clothes, and make-up when my friends came over. This went on up to my mid thirty’s as a cross dresser until I made the decision to tell my wife that I want to be a woman. Three years later and after her affair with “a real Man” I was left on my own with three kids in diapers to raise. My parents telling me that the courts well take my kids, my in-laws telling me im against God and im sinning, and that I need to find Jesus to be a man again. No friends, No Family, No work. Now during this time I considered myself to be transgender and proud of it too, but I struggled to find my myself and self-identity. So now in my forties and After a nervous break down I finally found a counselor who could help me. After some therapy and some blood work my Life up until know finally started making sense. You see as it turns out I’m genetically female XX chromosome. My lab results came back with a higher estrogen count then the testosterone, even though my testosterone count was normal for a male. So now im inter-sexed. My doctor speculates that this hormone duality has been going on since puberty. Well after a few years on hormone therapy, My girl pills as my kids call it I have finally started to put my life together. Im divorced, the kids are with me, I have friends, back to work, back to school, but I still don’t have love in my life, and I mean the intimate kind of love. I live my life as a girl, I love and have sex like a girl, think like a girl, feel as a girl, dress almost exclusively as a girl, my figure and overall appearance is now a girl and now no longer consider myself transgender for I am no longer in transition even though my male genital is intact. So here I am at 45 and have know idea of what I am, I do not classify myself with the transgender community anymore. Gender and sex are two different things so when it comes to gender I refer to myself as being Bi-Gender to others but in reality im a girl stuck with a useless penis (because of the medication), When it comes to sex my views are men are for fun but girls are for love, so with the boys im a heterosexual woman to them, with the woman its all about passion and pleasure so the typical definitions and descriptions of heterosexual sex or lesbian sex just do not apply for me. So going into my 5O”s the one irony is that now I have shifted so far over to the girl side that my legal status’s as a male and my male birth name are causing issues for me in my day to day public life, so I’ve begun here lately again to consider surgeries and changing my current legal status to fit in better and take me out of no mans land, or should I say “No Women’s Land”…. Please I welcome your response’s, inputs, and your own personal experiences.
You are very beautiful!!!!!
I am a transgender woman. that’s what my heart tell me!!
i am gender fluid
Transwoman. But to most who know me I’m just one of the girls.
I do not label my self I am just me.
I prefer woman but I will use transwoman, transgender woman and even T-girl.
I am definitely a translesbian. And a femme/lipstick one at that.
I am a transgender woman to the world.