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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 to don’t like labels, I see my self as a woman, but again if people ask I will go for TG. Now I live in denmark and maybe that is why I don’t understand the label/expression transexual, I mean, there is hetrosexual, bisexual and homosexual, but transexual !!?? I don’t get it, sorry.
Anyway a lot of thanks to you Lucille for this place on the net, it has helped me a lot in many way’s.
Hi,
I’m don’t want to go all the way (SRS) But I do live as a woman 24/7, And when I have adress my self, I adress my self as a woman, but I consider my self a transgender(ist).
I really love you site and tips,
Linda
I have spent a lot of time (uhhh, multiple decades) thinking about this, and I haven’t yet come to a conclusion. My partner, who is supportive, asks questions about the why or what of who I am and how I feel. I don’t have those answers, for me or her. good questions, though.
I don’t care much for labels, and not only WRT this specific issue. There are few labels that actually fit me, so I avoid them whenever I can and only use them to convey *very* general ideas.
For the most part, though, I’m just myself.
I live with 2 Mistresses & they call me a sissy. I think more of myself as being a woman.
Thank you for asking… but this is a question I have no real answer for that I like. Let me explain…
We humans seem to like to group people in categories. I hate the labels… especially dealing with gender, race and so many other groupings. But who am I when I don’t know how to label myself?
I’ve been a male all my life and I won’t hide that fact. But I’m not fully male. I’m not fully female either. I don’t fit in to a stereo typical label of gender.
Transvestite says I’m a male who wears female clothing. But why aren’t females who wear male clothing labeled as such? This label contradicts itself so I will not wear it.
After a lot of thought I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m part male and part female. So what label is that? I love to express my femininity to the world with a mix of male and female clothing. So for now I say I’m androgynous. I’m not sure that’s the right label for me either.
I am heterosexual and I find women beautiful. If I were to wake up one morning in a female’s body I would be excited. But would I want to be a female the rest of my life? I can’t answer that.
I do respect how females live and their empathy. But this is a males world… and I’ve lived as a male most of my life. Why would I want to give up that advantage? What about the male inside of me who is creative, strong and protective?
So I am a… person… who wears a skirt or a dress and is proud of it. I am a mix of genders who is heterosexual.
Excellent Debbie, you’ve said it for me too.
Exactly. I wish I could say “female”, but I’ve lived a privileged male life, so it would be insulting to genetic females to expect them to accept me as one of their own. Quite frankly: I don’t deserve that title. But, in my head, it’s the only one that even remotely fits.
well put.
In contrast to some of the other views here, I do think that a label for what we are is helpful; we have to be able to communicate our identities somehow. I like the term transgendered; it’s inclusive of a variety of personal types whose gender identity lives outside of a rigid duality, ranging from those of us who are androgenous to transvestites to those who feel a profound gap between the gender of their psyches and their birth-defined bodies.
This is a really great question, Lucille; I hope there will be more like this.
Human. I detest labels. Why do we fell the need to put everthing in boxes. I think outside the box, and I live outside the box, so I do not wish to be put into a box.