Choosing the right words to describe your gender identity can feel tricky. For transgender and non-binary people, finding a label that fits is personal and important.
Using respectful language matters. Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.
At the same time, you are more than a label. What matters most is how you choose to define yourself, no matter where you are on the gender spectrum.
Do you have a label that feels right – like crossdresser, transgender woman, non-binary, or something else?
I’d love to hear your thoughts, so let’s continue the conversation in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
I would say I’m a crossdressing sissy at this time. Eventually I hope to be called a shemale, but I have some work to get done before that will ever happen.
Growing up I always considered myself to be a transvesite. I knew nothing about transgender.
There was a time I thought my presentation as a woman was almost passible. But reality set in and I knew I had missed my shot. So I started calling myself, ‘A nonpracticing transvesite.’
Within the last few years I had had a very good friend point out that I was in all likelyhood transgender.
It’s a term I now wear with pride.
I agree with Cory and wish I could better pass as a woman but even with professional help, my face still says man. I love women and their cloths as a whole but I am in my 60’s and love women only, The men in my life are only and always will be only co-workers or hunting/fishing buddies.
Labels put us in a box that we most likely don’t fit in.
I think of my self as trying to integrate my feminine and masculine sides in to one.
If I had to fill a government form that required a gender them maybe I could mark T for transgendered or 2 for two souls. But that is only because I don’t fit into the box of M or F
Kelly
Why do we need to be labeled? I would like to be labeled a “Person”. But that is not possible. I used to think I may be a CD or TV, but over the last couple of years I have found I’m a Transgender. I have always wanted to be a girl since I was in 2nd grade or 1962! The thing that really bothers me is that my mother could get away with waring MENS clothes and be addressed as “Sir”, and be told she was using the wrong “Restroom”, and nobody would “Bat an eye”. I just can’t dress as a woman without a lot of “camouflage”!
Hi Lucille,
I do not really like that my gender is labeled with the “trans” word attached to it. The primary reason has to do with exactly what you pointed out about the serious confusion out there about it and the bad public relations that word has. I am definitely proud of being a woman, for sure, but I do not like those labels. It’s funny you say that you have been thinking a lot about it lately because strangely, I have been too… But as far as what I am, I am a transsexual woman. Truthfully, however, I am really just a female like any other…with a few birth related defects that I am correcting…
Im all Man in man mode and all Woman in woman mode .Taking the best from both worlds.Living life for me and Having fun fun fun . happy to talk to all you fun loving girls on flick r or face book call by and say hello Kim xxx
Had never really thought how I label myself, always too worried about how anyone one else would label me. I say ‘would’ as I ‘ve never vetured out. This is even the first time I’ve posted a photo!!!
However, I am lucky to have an understanding partner who I consider my best friend and from time to time my lesbian lover.
So I suppose I really consider myself a transvestite lesbian!!