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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 agree Becks — I want to be known as a woman, what I am inside no matter how else it looks. Girl is ok, too. Bitch is not bad at certain times!
I dont see any reason to bother with any label for anything in the middle,so the label I use is what I am planning for my result…female.I suppose if “man” and “woman” were used instead of “male” and “female” it would save a lot of hassle. But it just doesnt work that way.
Lucille,
I hate the way people try and make you feel shameful about the way you are. Some of us can’t have that we were born in the wrong body. At the beginning, I thought that there was something wrong with me but, I didn’t know how to deal with being a transexual. Trying to talk with my parents was just out of the question. So, I buried my feeling about everything including my being a transexual. I started crossdressing about 12. Whenever I had time to myself, I would dress as a female. As time dragged on I would dress more and more. There has been a few times that I’ve gotten “caught” and I would get rid of the stuff that I had. In Nov. 2007, I finally decided to become a female. I’ve done some of the research. I know what I want. It’s just finding the way of doing it. In the last 18 months or so, I’ve been dressing at home, showing off to friends in the company of my home, and getting part of my waredrobe together. Fashion is always changing. I’m trying to find myself as woman and the image that I’m trying to project and uphold. I’ve recently had to move and leave my girly things behind for the time being. I’m hoping that will change in the next few months so, I can finally finish what I started and get on with life as a transwoman.
Kayla
P.S.
Thank you for all of your help over the years.
I started out as a crossdresser at the age of 12 and realized I was more comfortable dressed as a girl and now at the age of 48 I am now a women.I went through all the surgeries and all the good and bad times trhat came with the transistion.How do I label myself easy I am a women
Some food for thought:
It is not how we label our selfs. Because we know who we are and we “hopefully” learn and read a lot about our well being and behavior and not fitting in to 90% of the other picture frames. It is more how the Vanilla people look at us. Most of the time they label us all the same, and most of the time wrong “they know it all”. There are great differences between each of us, that how nature works and it is nice that way.
The question is more what are the possibilities to educate them on the different “lables/ categories” which we should placed in to.
Yours Wilma
I am comfortable with calling myself a transwoman. In my opinion, it’s better to label yourself than have someone else label you.
i am a transexual, in me the eternal woman is coming true. thanx to lucille sorella for her help, she is enlightning our soles.
I consider myself a Crossdresser. I have only a few opportunities to dress and I do NOT go out in public, it is a very private thing. My wife knows, but does not participate and prefers not to know about it when I do dress, usually when she and the rest of the family are away from the house for an extended length of time.