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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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,
Look for my photo… Who can say that am I a female? So I’ve to submit myself to a treatment taking hormones during two years.After that, it’s necessary to model my face completely!…I hate my look! I can’t stay in front of a mirror. I would love to hear your thoughts,a good advice.
Love,
Rafaela
Really, I am just myself. When need a label I use cross-dresser or transvestite, but there are messy connotations with both of these. The first suggests perversion, the second hints at drag-queen. I am just a guy who wears skirts. At 69 years of age I don’t try to fool anybody, I only dress up at home. Of course, my adult children do not understand this facet of my personality, but I care less about this as time goes on. They have benefited enormously from the gentleness and generosity that my inclination has allowed. My wife of 50 years is accepting if not enthusiastic about my wearing of skirts, so I am free to realize my needs when I wish.
If labels are so important to someone, so be it, they are the ones that lose. I am a great person, loving and loyal. But I must be accepted for who I am. I am living with the hand I was dealt and: if I have no trouble with it, and am breaking no laws then they should have no problems with it either.
Unfortunately society does not see things my way as much as I would like. This adds limits to my life and I will deal with that as well. But I choose to be labeled in only one way: woman. I may not be a genetic woman but it is what I identify with. If they do not want to use that then I have one alternative identifier; Telzey. They can use all the generic ones they want, but if they want to specify those are the ones I identify with.
Hi Lucille I’m afraid I don’t like handles to my sexuality if asked I just say I’m me. Having lived like I am for the last thirty years I have heard all handles to this subject. I find it sad that people think like they do but this is the world we live in. When looking back to when I started to feel like I did you could have been locked away so are we supposed to feel greatfull to people’s misunderstanding of the subject. They do tend to talk before they think. Carol Royce
I label myself – Sad & Unlucky
I am and will be forever more a bio man but live my whole life as a female which includes at home at work and only have one wardrobe. labels are for others but for my own label its shemale…this is so others know and are not shocked and cannot pretend that they didnt know.It saves embarrasment.kind regards to you and all the girls out there.xx nici
I actually struggle with this most of the time. I’m sure I’m not unique in this, but I find myself somewhere in between, part male and part female in identity. I still haven’t come out to the world with my feminine self. A few people know, mostly the woman that is doing my laser hair removal, my massage therapist, and a VERY few select and very close friends. I present myself as male to my family and work environment still, but with the hair removal and the breast growth it will soon become obvious that I’m transitioning into a female body. Still, I’m not uncomfortable in the male role either, I just prefer to be female. So, back to topic, I don’t feel I fit any of the common labels out there. Labels are used to stereotype in my mind anyway, and every person is unique and rarely “fits” a label anyway. So, I try to avoid labels but when I have to choose one, which invariably happens, especially when there isn’t time to really explain, I use transgender. Maybe at some point I’ll find a better one, but for now that’s my preference.
I consider myself a she-male since most see me as female but I am still a male & attracted to women.
I rarely get misread since I tend to dress quite female. I really don’t care if someone refers to me a he since that’s what I biologically am.
I don’t think of myself as simply a cross-dresser since I’ve been on hormones for 6 years & had facial feminization surgery, but I still don’t consider myself as transgender, though I tend to think & act as a woman….
Kind of confusing!
ashawna