Choosing the right words to describe your gender identity can feel tricky. For transgender and non-binary people, finding a label that fits is personal and important.
Using respectful language matters. Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.
At the same time, you are more than a label. What matters most is how you choose to define yourself, no matter where you are on the gender spectrum.
Do you have a label that feels right – like crossdresser, transgender woman, non-binary, or something else?
I’d love to hear your thoughts, so let’s continue the conversation in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
I feel I am a Transgender Woman. It wasn’t before I stepped out that I felt true to myself. Years before, I felt like just an avid crossdresser who “could” pass. What surprised me then was that people were already misidentifying my born gender and apologizing! Inside I felt very flattered.
I do not like to be labeled as a fem guy, queer, not even crossdresser! I dress to match who I am internally.
mmm..for me, the whole thing whether on hrt or before was more a feeling, a sensation of femme; so most terms to me are secondary and sometimes arbitrary. but i like most as they indicate what is a feminine quality/qualities/state of being about me. i don’t like almost all those previously used negatively like fag, fag hag or poof[here in australia] by those who are on our side of the gender/sexuality differentiation due to their history including some personal sufferance & i get offended but i do always try 2 explain…amore
I consider myself to be bigendered, meaning that I know there’s a boy and a girl within me. I went to a shaman a couple of years ago, and she told me I had 2 souls, a male and a female one, and the female one was the stronger of the two. Nonetheless, I don’t feel like I’m in the wrong body, because I can look reasonably feminine. The two sides just need to co-exist.
Suzy, I would go for your female side, you’re too
smart looking to be male. In fact you’d be wasting
your time being male > go girl!.
Thank you, Laurie!!
I am a transgender person at the crossdresser end of the spectrum. I enjoy feminine presentation, but I have never felt that I was in the wrong body.
I have been female inside all my life, but I am now a woman both inside and out and have been for 20 years.
I am a woman with a transsexual history!
Labeling yourself is a personal identification that only the individual can say. Personally I only identify myself as a girl. yes, I’m mtf ,but I am still what I identify myself and I’m just another normal regular girl in my eyes. There’s no need for me to put transgender or trans because I’m just another girl.
anna is most definatly a T-girl. She sees herself as awoman with the added benifit of still having her “clitty” which dosent at all look masculine. Also her breasts also enhance her feminity. Just wishes that she were more able to dress as her real self as panties are the only femme clothing she owns
Am trying not label myself as those can change in time and a person is not always one thing nor another, but more bits of everything maybe some being stronger than others. Like having both a male and female side, but with as gurls our female side is stronger in us than other males who deny that aspect of themselves maybe?