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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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’ve struggled with this in the past because I wasn’t even sure myself where I stand. For me I consider myself to be third-gender. I am pretty positive I will never fully transition to female full time. However, I don’t relate or identify to a strictly male or female role/persona. It is way more than cross dressing for me. It is a mental/spiritual embodiment for me to explore my femininity.
I’m still not sure what actually is the perceived difference between crossdresser and transvestite. Whatever the answer is I’m somewhere along there, sprinkled with a desire to have a women’s body for real instead of just adding the relevant parts.
I know this all sounds very confused, but I suppose it’s a confusing area.
If someone can come up with a label that fits me, I’ll happily wear it.
I consider myself a woman born with a “birth defect”. That is who I am within and am working to make my appearance to match. Since it is a birth defect, my identity is a woman and not my birth defect any more that someone is labled as thier birth defect. That is how I am accepted and it feels wonderful to be a woman.
I am a non op tg
While I don’t like labels per say, but for a classification I am a trans-woman, but when I feel the need to describe myself, I tell people I am a woman. Plain and simple. After 2 years on HRT, I am thrilled with my progress, and I don’t see “him” at all anymore. All I see is Melanie, the woman I was supposed to be from birth.
Hi Lucille,
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to label ourselves.
On a good day, I’m proud to be just a tranny … on a bad day, I’m a sissy bitch !
Sandie.
I honestly only have used a label for points of discussion in forums such as this or personal ads where there is no MtF selection only female, so someone doesn’t get ,ad and feel fooled.
I look in the mirror every morning and see myself a 43 yo woman. Sometimes not looking her best but still very much a woman as any woman who is cisgendered. That is what I am.
I was pressured by my parents and others around me, not to act or be naturally what I am since childhood, so I was in denial of my true gender most of my life. I’m just catching up and you, Lucille, have really helped me get over a lot of “old Tapes” others created for me. Every single day I’m happier in my own skin
Now officially labeled and packaged into a neat little box like so many folks have to have, I qualify as a Non-op MtF Transsexual woman. Not Non-op by choice but by being of govt disability so no money, or I’d have had SRS already.
My name is Lucinda Anne and I am a transgendered woman living in the Chicago land area. I am not a cross dresser, transsexual or a transwoman! I am compelled to be a complete woman from my head to my cute little toes. This isn’t just a fling nor is it part time. I have had a gender issue all of my life starting when I was very young and it didn’t take me very long to to discover that I was a female living in a male body and the tragedy is I didn’t know what to do about it until 4 years ago. I now live as a woman 100% of the time and since I started living as a woman I am the happiest woman alive and surly the luckiest! The path to womanhood is paved with a very rocky surface but it smoothes as you proceed into the future just stay focused and in time you will find you’re world of happiness and fulfillment as I did.
Love and Kisses,
Lucinda Anne