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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
Hi Lucille
I, like Joanne label myself as a Trans woman or T-girl, and I love how she explains it! “I explain that I am a woman and was born a little girl with a birth defect, which I’m now dealing with.” This is how I feel and live also, and I love every day of it. I am so grateful to have a loving wife that supports me and the best part, loves me for who I am and does not try to change me. She is my love.
Love Christina
im a pre op transsexual,and the term i like the most is ,girls who can wright their names in the snow,also very fond of the term t girl[covers alot].
I have always identified as a woman,despite a cruel trick of nature left me with a female mind and a male body,which i have tried to correct with the use of hormones & surgeries to bring body and mind together!in order to be comfortable in my own skin. Linda…
I actually resent being labeled because nobody is actually getting a true definition of these labels !How can society learn to accept if they are getting the wrong denitions ? I am a living ,breathing person who bleeds and has feelings like any other human being ! Why can’t we just me labeled Human Beings ? Why can we not be treated as humans ? Paroled convicted convicts that are mass murderers , child molesters , and drug dealers are accpted over people like myself , go figure !! We are not the ones wrong, we are just truying to deal with the hand that we were dealt !
I have so much difficulty with this. To my girlfriend I’m a softy male – with cross dressing tendencies. To myself I am a woman- or perhaps Dame aux masques hidden inside a male body. I wear girly clothes most of the time- but am not out because I don’t know where or what that leads to. I strive for a female shape- but even that is only barely detectable.
I describle myself as a male to female transsexual lesbian.
A bit of a mouthful but it shuts people up with a confused blank expression
Hi Lucille,
It certainly is a good question!
I do not like to be pigeonholed, to be honest. One of my medics refers to me as a transwoman (nice guy, too) but, so what?
There are so many assumptions, too. A therapist asked me “why do you cross-dress?” My answer was “who said I did?”
Its all too many assumptions that we all fit some fixed image of possible normality and I think that is sad.
I am me, Gen, and I am still me when I am wearing whatever I am wearing. This attitude must be having some effect on my appearance though, because many people in public, such as in shops or offices, now either call me madam or avoid the gender address and just smile, whatever I wear.
Most women round here don’t wear girly stuff to go shopping. They are all fairly androgynous by day. Maybe a bit of makeup and something which admits to having breasts – but when I think about it, perhaps we girls look a little bit more “cleaned up” than the local country guys in Western Europe. And we move a bit more elegantly, too.
Oh! Hell! Read that and it just says I’m a woman, does it not?
Anyway, that is how I feel just now.
Love to you,
Gen
I hate that the powers that be have lumped sexual preference labels with sexual identity under the transgender label. It does not help in the least and totally confuses those who don’t know us.
I stopped using transgender early after having been fired from my 20yr job for saying I was a transgendered woman when I introduced myself. Apparently the City thinks that it means I was talking about sex in front of children; the word transgender must be a “dirty word.” So when I use any label, very seldom it is transwoman or transexual woman, never transgender again.