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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 label myself as a woman, but, if asked, i say i’m a transexual.
I am not into labels, but consider myself a “gender gifted” female. I would love the world to accept me as a woman, although like others i feel that I do have a “birth defect”.
We are who we are, I am comfortable being me. I have to say that if nobody can accept me for being me, thats their problem. Some kinds of labels bother me, some dont so much. All of us out here deserve respect, not labels. Labeling seems to be a childish schoolyard game. We are adults here. We all may be a little different in some ways, but most of all, we are who we are! I am happy being ME!!!
Part time cross dresser , whenever time and space has its moments .
If I was to be ” labeled ” , I would choose being transgendered , M+F , and Pre-opt. I still work as a man , but 90% of my free , alone-time , is being my gurl-self.
I am very passable in public , have decided to venture out without any fears , and people do accept me as a woman now.
My family/friends know nothing about my ” Deb Life “. I have kept this a secret for many years. My ex-wife found out about my ” secret ” during the last 2-3 years of our marriage. She considered me a homosexual. I never denied her accusations , but prefer to be called ” transgendered “. She did finally show me makeup tips and we did go ” shopping ” together several times….while I was dressed as Deb. She bought me many items to wear (wigs and dresses) and she still keeps my longtime secret to herself.
I am a “cross dressing she-male” and I love that role in my world!!
Nice boobs you have my dear!!
Like most people here, I don’t really like using labels because we’re all so incredibly multifaceted that no one can be perfectly categorized. I think that when people even attempt to label someone it’s sort of like them saying, “I don’t really care to know more about you. I’d rather rely on my preconceptions of your ‘type’ so my fragile perception of the world can be preserved one more day”. (Now I’m not pointing at anyone in particular…I just think that, from my experience, the world’s become a very impersonal, intolerant place and that’s how most people think.)
That said, whenever I think about who I am as an individual and how I feel about my life and other things that are divorced from social perspective, I always see myself as I am, a woman.
Whenever I think of myself in terms of interacting with others and my role in society in general, I tend to despair at NOT having a label. As hypocritical as this may sound, in these cases I feel like I can’t relate to neither man nor woman and am completely cut off from the human condition.
Lastly, on the very rare occasion when I bear my soul to someone and step out of the proverbial closet, I just tell them I’m transgendered, because, even though it inevitably requires an explanation, I think it feels like the most honest way for them to accept me and the “easiest” way for them to understand who I am.