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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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…For me answering this question seems easy, but in all actuality it is difficult to give a correct answer that would be understood by most. Since I was 5, I have identified myself as wanting and wishing to of been born a girl. Through life I thought hat I could change that and I to began to label people as they try to label me. Personally, I hate being labeled anything more than a woman. Although, I haven’t begun my transformation for so many reasons, I long to be that person inside. I do not try to keep myself secret from the world, but I do try and be very discreet for other reasons. There are a few people that know of me, like those at “Just You/Glamour Boutique” in Vegas. They don’t label, but many others do. I understand I wasn’t born a woman on the outside, but that is all I have ever identified myself as. Here is hoping one day it won’t just be something I look back at and regret for not transitioning and being happy for the remainder of my years.
Sorry for rambling… I suppose I am just having a rough day. I hope this makes some kind of sense.
Hugs and Love….Britney
I label myself as a woman that is trapped in a mans body with no way out at the moment. i feel like a woman but look like a man with boobs.
I don't care how I am labeled . This is what I choose to be and only care how I feel about myself . As far as it goes I enjoy my change and only worry about my femminem feelings . So call me as they wish it dosent get my dander up . Except me for what I am is all that matters . I love my new body .Depending on my mood, I go between Female, Transgendered and damned unlucky.
To me labels are used by others to keep you in a box so they can define who and what you are. I mean myself for example what label would I use. I perform drag but am in no way a drag queen. At one time very early in my self discovery I saw myself as a cd but that was just a comfortable step on the way to finding myself. two years into identifying that way one night I realized I was much more than a cd because when it was time to remove the clothes and make up I did not want to. While due to many circumstances I have not even started hrt I do desire and plan at some time to fully transition because though I live my life as a male I know I am truly female mentally, psychologically, and emotionally though my physical appearance does not match. So while the most accurate label for how I feel would be non op transsexual I at this time would say I identify as transgender simply because my current existence does transcend the boundaries of my anatomically assigned gender.
So I guess that while society uses these terms as labels to categorize us I use it myself as a way to identify who Iam.
Yes I do consider my self a woman even my soon to be ex wife says all the time I was born in the wrong body!!!! and should have been born female 🙂
When I am out I always act like a perfect lady
I took a gender identity quiz one time and it stated me as a “androgyne”. So I really can’t disagree too much with that. I am stuck somewhere in the middle between feminine and masculine. But I enjoy trying to be as feminine as I can during my female times.
I consider myself transgendered. Inside I am a woman but I was born in a man’s body. As far as my sexuality goes I am Lesbian, I have sex with women and wish they could do to me what I do to them. I am ashamed to have male genitils and feel deformed and don’t like to be around other men. I would love to bear children for my lover, but this body I am in prevents me from ever living my life to its fullest. I pray that reincarnation is real and maybe next time around all will be normal.