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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 call myself a crossdresser to the 3 people in my life who know about me being one. Although ,I think, transvestite ,is amore acurate lable. I feel I go way beyond simply crossdressing.I shaved my body completely,paint my toe nails ,wear panties under my male clothes every day.and more. All done in private at home.Thanks so much for your help with this web site and your products you sell. Love,miss Darlene Porter
I believe that passing/not passing is something I can no longer worry about. I wasted many god years in the closet being afraid. Now that I am out and about I no longer try to figure out who or what I am. I try to dress to a level commesurate with my age and if I am accepted, so be it. If I am not, it is usually just a fleeting contact with non-acceptance. Move on to the next experience. Enjoy yourself! You are going to have great days and then there will be lousy days. I just enjoy Gerri Dee when I am Gerri Dee I don’t care if I am Transgered, Crossdresser, Transexual. I do know that all the hormones, drugs, and surgeries will never make me a gentic woman so I just enjoy what I turn out to be when I am dressed.
Love,
Just Gerri Dee
You look hot to me babe!!
Hi.
We’ve just had a similar debate on a norwegian site for transsexuals/tranvestites/crossdressers. Somebody suggested that a man who sometimes dress as a woman is a man in drag! I hated that. Simply because drag has become more and more associated with entertainment. So either you are a cross-dresser or a transvestite. I call myself a transvestite. For me it has a little “deeper” meaning, in a way… And as a young man this was the first expression I ever heard describing the strange lust for womens clothing and the female expression. It has taken me years to come out and to accept who I am – a happy transvestite.
ElisabethL
To be honest I am not a fan of the labels
especially Transvestite, TRANNY, xdresser
If anything TG works for me. The term cross dresser for me would be someone who has an option of weather or not they feel like putting on a dress for fun.
I am more or less compelled by something inside me. I really do not have a choice because the desire to be feminine will never go away no matter how much I try to stop. If anything the desire along with feelings increase as I get older. I guess the word I would use is acceptance and embrace it as a gift.
The Indian culture has beautiful word they describe Transgendered s as Gifted individuals. They call them (DUAL SPIRITED) EMBRACING THE SPIRITS OF BOTH MALE AND FEMALE
Difficult question to answer. It started out as crossdressing, but now I am not sure anymore. I use every opportunity to dress. I would love to have a more feminine figure, including breasts, but I do not think I would go all the way. So I exclude myself from being transsexual. So where do I stand now?
Hi Lucille….and friends!
I find it very hard to place myself under any label/class/etc. I have had a very strong feminine side since birth. My twin sister died 3-4 months after fertilization and the doctors have told me since that when she died I took from her, my feminine genes/attributes. Lots of things happened between now and then and my mother, “God rest her soul”, often spoke to me about inner feelings which has helped me navigate to this point. I have a couple of friends who know of my past and are very understanding of my daily feelings. While with them I am free to be male or female and they has been my staff through any difficult times I encounter. Am I a cross-dresser….?? perhaps. Am I a trans-gender… I say no. I know I am not a drag queen or a transvestite. I guess my best answer to your question Lucille, would be this… I am me! I have got this far dividing myself with the guidance and understanding of my mother. That is not to say that I have not had my days when Corin wanted so bad to be out and was forced to be patient. She gets more time out now that I am older and through life changes I have more opportunities for her to be HER!
Thanks so much Lucille for be only a key-stoke away for so many, including me!!
Corin ox
Thank you for asking this…
I prefer to be “labeled” a cross-dresser for the simple fact that I LOVE both sides of myself. The one who feels a need to be softer and elegant and pretty, or the more obvious alternative, the person who everyone sees on a daily basis, the male.
Having these two sides, I feel makes me a better person as a WHOLE and not just “one sided”. I can respect and admire both genders.
Sometimes, the best part of being a cross-dresser is that at the end of the day, I can take off the all my make up and female clothing and go to bed as a male, or I can put on a soft nightgown and let the masculine world disappear for the night.
I LOVE being a cross-dresser.
Love
Rebecca
I so agree with you. You go girl!!
You are so right – exactly how I feel, right now! How can I be called a woman legally when I was born a male? I do not mind sailing on this voyage and shouting “I feel like a woman” and once I learn how to dress up that will be fun. I a newbie gradually transforming into cross-dresser. You look sexy, Rebecca.
Good on ya,
Manda
Hard question. I’m married and have crossdressed for many years. It started with my sister dressing me when I was young as she wanted a sister. When she stopped I continued dressing myself. I have always wanted a figure like a woman and nice small breasts, the figure is hard to acheive but I do have small breasts now. I don’t get to go out dressed up it all stays behind closed doors which is a pity as I wold love to show off to other people. My wife helps me but as long as we keep it quiet. So in all i would say i’m a crossdresser. 🙂