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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
Lovely Lucille my road to self discovery has been long but I have always known I was a women. Currently my situation isn’t exactly as I would wish but the fact remains I’m still here after a lot of diversity. I may never have any types of surgery as they are well out of my income reach I am currently taking hormones which more than elates me to watch myself evolve, my appearance is much softer than it was some time ago and that brings me much joy.Even though I’m not living full time as a women I hope to be soon but my mind has always been there.And most times when I’m out in public I’m perceived as being female no matter how I’m dressed so I’m assuming it’s how you carry your self.I don’t look at being referred to as being trans-gendered as a label for me its just an honest way of saying this is how I was born.Its how you live your life for yourself that matters most not what other people may say or think. Lots 0f love and best wishes AMY
Initals initials and more initials!!!! Oh my dear heart just goes nuts over this. I am Molly and always will be I’lll never understand it except that moly is who I am. She is in me from the first minute until now. I was ashamed of her at one time but no longer
I would say I was a cross dresser then a Transvestite then a trannie and ever a gender queer. It doesn’t mater except when i’m in a lgtg group and folk want to know what i’m doing there if I’m not dressed as Molly and I’m in male drag.
I love my male and female and won’t ever give either up.
My dirct answer is I am Molly.
Mooly
Dear Lucille.
iI am worried because i am going to my doctors on the 30th march.which is a routine appointment for deppression,i have been going to doctors most of my life.I will need to tell my doctor the truth about whats going on in my mind.i sent you an email a short time ago outlining my situation.how can i tell my doctor.
when i was a child gender problems was not talked about.i was borned in 1955.my family brushed my problem under the carpet when i was a child.if they had considered me more then. i would me a different person now.the doctor i have now is not the same one i had at birth.
I find this interesting as labels have always created issues. I consider myself a human being.
Labels simply allow others to position themselves within a social and religious setting that allows yourself to judge and condemn others based on fear, ignorance and intolerance. Ergo, being human disallows for such labels and leaves us all in the same place. At least that is my view on labeling others.
I do not like labels; they tend to make others assume an identity. But if I must chose one, I would call myself a cross-dresser.
At age 66, I am much too old to consider transitioning, and I am not sure I would do that even if it were an option. I like both sides of myself too much. I didn’t realize I was interested in cross dressing until about six or seven years ago, but now I dress entirely in female clothing while at home, and usually “underdress” when I go out.
I rerely present as female, though, because the area in which I live is too homophobic. I fear for my safety, should I be “clocked”.
I tell otheres that iam woman my body may have been male but my brain is that of womans
I hate labels for such things as how I dress, how I act and the such. One thing that annoys me the most is that over 90% of women crossdess, wearing men attire everyday. yet they are never labeled as drag kings, crossdressers, or any other degrading name. Why is it so different for men who enjoy the feel of softer clothes, more lace? Remember before pants were invented (around 1750AD) everyone wore skirts! imagine that!!
Anyhow I do not like titles, my name is Joe, use it. If I would call a woman a fag because she wears pants then I would be chauvinistic, yet when I am called a crossdressr, transgender, or drag queen it is fitting as if I am doing something wrong. It is socially accepted as after all ain’t I?
Labels are needed in some situations, but not in this one, we are all human beings who should have all the same rights and privileges to dress and be who we are without the steriotype of bias, downgrading and labels.
i like to say i am a woman a full woman