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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
You are so sweet Linde, thank you. I do have a related question that will probably benefit all who follow in your steps:
Clearly, there are many, many things a woman must learn to do differently, from her walk, to learning how to develop a feminine voice. Where would you place most of your efforts in the early days of transformation?
I consider myself to be a cis like intersex woman. I live fulltime as a woman for many years already, and hardly can remember my life as a male person.
I am a volunteer in helping trans women to transition, and I come to this site to learn a few more tricks how to help them better.
I am also a medical doctor, and can give some advise to the women, too.
Two thoughts about how I differ from you: first, I am female inside, and I want to be perceived as cis female. And second, as a pre-op mtf trans, my body transformation is still in the making. So few will accept me as being more female than male based upon what they see, hear, or feel.
That said, I look forward to when I too may find it hard to remember the difficulties of living in a male body. But I would bet if you think back hard enough, going back is something you would never want to experience.
Yes, you are right, the time during which I tried to represent a male person, was very horrible for me. It was not my mentality only, but I never developed male, but mostly female, and I had to try hide my mostly female body to look like a male body. These days it would be impossible for me to go back, because my phenotype is all female, and I unlearned any kind of male socialization I ever had.
I hope your time to be the female you are meant to be, will come soon, and you will find how happy your life is, once your brain and body are together the way you were meant to be.
I wish you good luck and hope this time will come soon for you!
I call myself a bisexual crossdresser, because I haven’t taken any steps to permanently transition. As I am married to the most amazing woman who supports me dressing as a woman, and my being the woman I am inside, and she has asked that I only do it permanently if I absolutely feel it is necessary. But, I think of, feel like, and consider myself a trans woman.
I like using the Tgirl label. I want to be full time, but reality prevents this from happening. I still fantasize about being a girl whether I am out in public or home quarantining. The term leaves more range of options for me to explore in femme mode.
Tell the truth… I’m a woman
I feel most comfortable acknowledging I am neither what society considers a man or a woman, therefore technically I am a genetic man with a very strong female identity and explain myself that way as it rings true for me. And I say I fall under the transgender umbrella if pushed for an answer. I started HRT 3 years ago and live my as authenticically as my soul leads me. I don’t enjoy being called sir, I get excited on the o casinos I am called honey or sweetie or you girls when with another. So maybe we enjoy the compliments and don’t get hung up on labels. Just find ground you feel steady upon♀️
I’m not feminine at all, I fact, I’m kind of a burly man.
But I’ve always fantasied about being a girl.
Since my divorce I’ve built a pretty
Big collection of girlie things for “Rachel”
My alter ego!!
I definitely identify as a crossdresser.
I think because I haven’t seen a gender therapist , or started transitioning yet, I would not call myself a trans woman, transgender possibly, I feel I should be a woman , so hopefully that will happen in time . It’s a difficult question for me to answer .