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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 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!!