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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
Just call me Jasmine & I’ll be happy !
I’m not trying to be anyone but me & as honest as possible with it. My outlook means that I’m non-op so where ever that leaves me I’m not overly worried. I think that everyone needs a creed to live by mines simple & I first heard it from a Trans from sweden ” Be yourself because everybody else is already taken ” That one line gave me the strength to be just me. If I’m asked to give myself a label then I usually just say Trans and leave it at that.
I see myself simply as a female trapped in the wrong body! I don’t see labels nor do I want want any either. If I have to say any it will be TG.
I am not one who generally likes to be labeled or to label others. As I live full time as a woman, I don’t consider myself to be anything other than a woman. After all, that is who I am and believed that I have always been for that matter. I recognized early on when finding my way through the transgendered community that it was wide and varied and the people within the various groupings were significantly differenta and individual in their thoughts, beliefs and desires. I realized that I was always more comfortable related to those who intently preferred being a woman instead of a part-timer- or one that was intent on showing/maintaining his masculinity. I don’t have less tolerence for individuals like that – just recognize we are all different and that is okay.
Lucille, having women like you who actually champion our differences is truly wonderful. We all appreciate you so much.
I really don’t like labels, because they are like labels on the spines of files, and in each file are thousands of papers and pages and reports, none of which explain us or help us. And prejudices, assumptions and misinformed opinions. Pages and pages written to protect people from facing ambiguity, to make them feel safe in binary gender concepts. And those files are what people read, even the ones we love and who love us.
Amongst others, I am a cross dresser. This is what I do. There is woman in me, there is girl. My brain is 50/50 M/F. I’m not an effeminate man and I’m not a masculine woman. What I see as my loveliness is scary, because when I’m in the right clothes for me, I’m in the wrong clothes for others.
“Tranny”, I find demeaning. It’s a contraction and a summation that allows people to dismiss others.
“Transgender” I understand, as I do “intersex”. This is more clinically diagnosable and the sadness is that for poor people there is no fix. I am not in conflict between male body and female psyche, so I don’t call myself transgendered.
“Pre-op” and “post-op” simply describes intention or achievement, so I don’t count them as labels, just as adjectives.
“Transvestite” is a label that has all the signs of formal summation too: what you do wrapped up in a technical term. Done, We know what you are. Wrong: you only describe a superficiality.
I don’t think there is a label that defines the mind of an MF person with respect.
Just call me a person and respect my differences and my dignity. It’s what I give everyone else, however I’m dressed.
I guess I am Androginous; neither male or female. I love to dress as I wish even though society isn’t ready to accept men in feminen clothes as they are women in men’s clothing.
hi lucllie i love being dress as a woman i feel comfortable to wear womans clothes i know it hurts fr me to go out like a woman they say nasty things aabout me but i know i get a long wid woman then guy friends i dnt know but im slowy like a man fr bf i want somake to be dress as woman i feel good that way i dnt know wat to do i cant dress hercoz i live in borader house wid guys ok lov brianna my girly name i like so much
While I do not like labels say, but I’m getting cross-wife, but when you feel the need to describe myself, I tell people I am a woman. Clean and simple. . All you see is a quiz, a woman who was supposed to be giving birth.