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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
This body I inhabit has been presented as male for years. I might wish it was not so (and I do) but I have to use common sense and accept my physicality and all that entails. Broad shoulders, body hair, mostly baritone … you get the picture.
But, but, but, but, but ….
Body hair is a no-brainer. No biggie about my chest; hanging off the front are obviously breasts not pecs. My gynecomastia is important to me, and I like what it brings me closer to being.
Clothes: I wear clothes that aren’t from the menswear department. From my shoes up to my bras. I prefer unbifurcated garments but have jeans (nothing but “womens” jeans, mark you).
I don’t label me specifically but if I am given choices in web profiles etc. I identify as female.
I’m not kept awake at night burdened by feelings of wrongness or unfulfilled hopes and desires. I have always been a work in progress. In the eyes of the government I am male. To my darling wife, I am…. the one she loves, whatever I am called.
If I had my life to do it all again, I would be determined to become what I feel I am inside, and do it before I left my teenage years: female.
For now, the best I can be is Real, and Me.
Hi Lucille in my comments above I labeled myself as a crossdresser but after reading your article about myths I see myself now as a transgender woman although currently I don’t feel like either since I’m stuck in male mode which I hope how soon I can bring that to an end and get stuck in fem mode for the rest of my life although I’m sure at first I’ll have to deal with going back to male mode some maybe more than I’d like I’m glad I can come here and at least think feminine and feel feminine a little if my stupid check would just show up I would at least have some money to get the whole thing started I’m so tired of being in male mode having an uggy beard and body hair really bugs me anymore before my wife passed I was always clean she liked me that way she loved me so much and I her we were so happy this time it wasn’t always perfect for sure but for the most part it was great Love M.J.
Just a slowly blossoming woman that was assigned male at birth a long time ago.
Lucille honey I hope to someday live fulltime as a woman I don’t think I’ll ever be able to afford surgery I also hope to be very feminine and quite passable I hope to make you proud when and if I can ever get some pics to you Love M.J.
As above I still must label myself a crossdresser currently and I still feel more like a transgender woman or a t-girl I like this term tgirl or twoman or transwoman we really just wish to be women even though were truly not the girls today who go through the surgery some are just okay most are undetectable
I’d say that I’m not transgender per se, but I definitely to want to look more feminine and androgynous.. So I end up getting a lot of tips from the MtF transgender crowd! Thanks!
I’m male, but I’d consider myself a bit of a “pansy”.. I don’t like the macho aesthetic or anything to do with the male body look..
It doesn’t really make that much of a difference to me as I look exactly the same whether in male mode, female mode or anything in between. I usually go with “genderqueer” or “androgyne” but if asked by someone outside the community I tell them “crossdresser” because it is easier to understand. (even though in many cases I don’t really crossdress)
I am transgendered woman and have known that I was female inside at the early age of 4 and would love someday to become full time female.Lucille , you have been very helpful, xoxoxoxox hugs and kisses to you