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 Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.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
The labels are always imprecise and sometimes inappropriate, but can be used for orientation.
I am a woman for the first thirty years he played, learned, pretended to be a man in a male body.
The last 15 years were spent trying to remember my roots and who they really are.
On this trip I’m going through all the issues between the two genders (crossdresser, transvestite, homosexual, etc.) but none is mine, so I think I am a woman who has simply forgotten to be
Depending on how I’m dressed, either Bob or Roberta.
Crossdresser or transvestite? We’ll wearing womens cloths all the time does that make me diffrent,no! Sure I wish I was born a female,but I wasn’t. I have accepted who I am,a female born in a male body.
its funny to find this question…when i have in the far past ask that of myself so many times..so many steel to this day ask the same of me and i even wrote a song about it.so with out gave my song away i just reply im just person
Sigh, I would do almost anything to be able to feminize my body. In fact, I am actively looking for a way to grow breasts (implants and inserts do not cut it) I would not change sex, but I yearn to have most of a womans body.
It’s not TG or TS, it’s more than Crossdressing, I guess the only appropriate term would be the current Shemale.
Oooohh…I don’t know if I can honestly answer this one. I suppose transgendered is good. My whole life I’ve just wanted to be ALL woman, so for a long time I would only label myself as transsexual. Tho I decided recently to stop trying to “be my own therapist”, and seek help from a real one. Lets say “transgendered with high hopes for the future” 😉
Kent
tis always best to put labels on cans and not people.
Having said that we as people like to associate with the familiar and attempt to understand that which is not familiar. The best way to do this, in either case, is to assign a recognizable and descriptive piece of information or “label” on to that which is or is not familiar. Doing so is fine, provided you don’t expect things to be certain in ways that want to “fit” by closing off your consideration that there is more information that you may not have.
In other words it’s bad to say. “you know “those” Transvestites”, they are so gross. But it’s OK to say, he is a transvestite. Which I don’t understand, but I love that he is free to express his style of dress.
I am a woman 1st, im fine being different, but dont wish to be treated that way, because so are all of u. i dont see why we must classify each other, when people come in all shapes and sizes, all colours of the rainbow. is it simply to explain ourselves to others? hi, im a… (black person, white person, gay person) … im a point on a spectrum. B