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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
labels?? hate them!! misconceptions abound about “us”. By “us” I am referring to crossdressers. i have been dating a GG for sometime now. I came out to her a year ago. her first thought was I was gay so I had to clear that up. her 2nd thought was that I wud have SRS …. no, no plans for surgery for this guy! its been a learning exp for both of us. I do dress at home but have not done so with her when we go out…yet. she is ready for that now and so am I. its all about being open and discussing whats on our mind(s). so bottom line is I refer to myself and my friends as crossdressers.
Like many, I think labels don’t work in general.
I just need an escape from reality sometimes, an escape that lets me feel pretty, and sexy, and wanted, even if it’s just for an imaginary audience. I don’t think my temporary want to feel sexy fits into any previously coined label.
Who am I that is a good question. I still looking for the real me.
I accept transsexual, feel woman inside but act male. If that means anything.
I don’t like labels at all. We are human beings, be it Male or Female. Labels are for can goods not people.
I don’t go by any of those mentioned in the E-Mail.
I am just me. That is who I plan to be and always will.
Stephanie
🙂
Dear Lucille,
I am who Iam.
Physically I am a man, but mentally and emotionally I am a woman.I suppose schizophrenic would probably best describe my present state, but I know for certain that my long subdued femininity is gaining the upperhand. I crossdress, but only when alone as try as she might, the love of my life, my dearest wife, just cannot come to terms with my split personality. I have reached the stage where I habitually only wear male clothes as an outer shell.
We are all human beings, fitting somewhere along the spectrum of life and we all move along this spectrum, some backward and forward others in only one direction. None of us stand still or mentally and emotionally we die.
Love Keith/Kaye
I would say I identify as MTF Trans, Transgender, or Trans Girl. I am a lil tomboyish and present a lil androg sometimes but in my brain/mentally I am female. 😛
I consider myself as transgender since I am taking hormones and I am tranfering my gender from m to f
It makes my skin crawl when someone titles me as a crossdresser and I usually reply with “I don’t wear my wife’s undies under my clothes”