Choosing the right words to describe your gender identity can feel tricky. For transgender and non-binary people, finding a label that fits is personal and important.
Using respectful language matters. Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.
At the same time, you are more than a label. What matters most is how you choose to define yourself, no matter where you are on the gender spectrum.
Do you have a label that feels right – like crossdresser, transgender woman, non-binary, or something else?
I’d love to hear your thoughts, so let’s continue the conversation in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
That is my way too
I do not like the way people try to tell me that I am trying to change what I am. I have always felt and did things as a girl. I never felt like a boy and wore my sisters dresses. I feel wonderful when someone says I look good.
Dear Lucille,
I am a woman with a birth defect that I live with everyday. I feel like a woman and feel I have always been one, going back as far as I can remember. I hate the fact that we have to have “labels” at all. I think things would be a lot better without them and we loved each other for who we are inside and not what we look like or the clothes we wear. Why not, that’s how our Heavenly Father sees us, and if it is good enough for him why not us. The world gets to caught up with putting everything in a box and if we don’t have a society box to fit in then we are labeled as being strange. I think we are the ones that are better off because we are comfortable with who we are. So get out there ladies and show the world we are beautiful, smart, and sexy.
Love to all
Christina Elizabeth Tilly
Hi Lucille
I would rather be called a Lady, a Woman, or a Girl. I love being called Miss. I am Male to Female Transgendered, but, I hate labels. I hate to be called Transgendered.
Love Always
Sherry Love
I identify as both a woman and a transsexual. What I am not is a
cross-dresser (though I used to be one).
Girl, Transgender or Tgirl
girl, female, woman
I’m just your friendly neighborhood transsexual 😛
You are very beautiful!!!!!