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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
Hi Ladies.
Personally, labels suck but if I have to be labeled, then I prefer to be a “Transsexual”.
To all the ladies that I go out with I am who I am and they accept me a woman and treat me that way. It is only a small percentage of ignorant people that I run across that I feel need to be educated.
We all need to be happy and be ourselves in life and if that means we are a little different then so be it.
One of my doctor’s said that she had to list me as “Gender Dysphoric” but after seeing her for about a year, she removed it. Her comment was “You are not suffering from a disease of the mind, you really are a woman who is trapped in a man’s body.” She is now assisting me in anyway she can to help me prepare for my SRS which she thinks is a huge step in my life.
For me, I wanted it yesterday and still do.
So if society has to stick a label on you, as long as it is not defamatory, let it roll off of you. If it is, educate them but do it as a woman, politely.
Love to all,
Mistique
I don’t like lables either. However if I had to have one I would pick transexual.I feel stuck between a mans body which I have had for a long time and carried out for most of my adult life.But on the otherhand I have allways felt like I should be a female.I was made to wear girly underware and dresses and makeup by my sister when young and loved it.I now support b-c sized breasts and I realy love them so does my wife.I have never told her I was trying to grow them but she likes them and loves to suck and rub them but never asks anything.
Hi All,
Me, I’m a T-girl and I’m happy about that. Sometimes people do not understand this and I have to say transvestite to them.
But mostly T-girl works for me.
I hate labels i prefer not to be label i just want to wear what i want when i want. But if people must label people i would be a crossdresser.Which i don’t mind when they do i figure if they don’t like how i dress or look like than they don’t have to look at me or talk to me i have plenty of friends and family that know me and love me for who i am.
Hi girls,
I just consider myself a t-girl or transvestite personally. I love it and being like it is the best and the most rewarding and liberating feeling ever. I have been so happy since I accepted who and what I am. When I’m out most people just say how acceptable and lovely they think I look. They don’t seem to be bothered about labelling me. I do go out daytimes mainly.
love Trina xx
I dont like labels. I like to express my feminine side in the way I dress and do not feel it is right to be ridiculed or discriminated against for doing so. After all most women nowadays wear what 20+ years ago would have been described as male attire.
Love Diane
What a wonderful forum for those of us who, for whatever reason, find ourselves just a little outside of the typical gender norm. I have been a chromosomal male for almost 60 years but also for those 60 years my heart and mind has been that of a lady. My girl development followed closely my boy development and as many have stated I have experienced all the struggles of the “tug of war” between my two selves. As to the idea of what I may refer to myself as I have determined, along with all my close friends, that I’m just “different”. I think labels have their place. To be transgender would indicate that I have changed physically from one to the other which I’ve not done. To be a transvestite or cross dresser would indicate that there is some sort of sexual gratification in dressing up. That also is not the case with me. My doctor, who happens to be gay, prefers the label “gender dysphoric”. He’s asked me if I have ever had sex with another man and my response is, “are you asking my genetic self or are you asking my heart self”. Even to him the issue gets a little cloudy.
I love who I am and feel very comfortable with being different. It sometimes causes discomfort for some I come into contact with but those even have to smile when they see me wearing shorts, tank top, pigtails, and flip-flops, and yes even painted toes.
Thank you Lucille for this way of expressing my thoughts.
I’ve decided not to hate anything – not even labels, not even bigots. As for me, I consider myself a shemale (some days I feel very manly and feel perfectly ok with being classified as a man. Then on some other days I’m utterly feminine and consider myself a woman; and my physical features are also a mix. Some other days I feel like an aspirant woman – some sort of disciple in a Goddess temple learning to serve Her as a priestess but still trapped in my male condition… Idon’t think labels are hateful, they just don’t fit everybody all the time…