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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
ive always consdinerd my self intersex im really lacking the confindence to go full transgenderedas with labels screw em there forb macho dickheads and im not that any more
Am comfortable in either boy mode or en femme. But in mind, am always en femme in thoughts, decisions, and the way I spontaneously react to issues and events. Therefore, in boy mode I am known as Bret, en femme simply as Brittney. Anything else is a label which I deplore and consider a downer..and my reaction to those using labels…is “byeeeeeee”.
Labels are others trying to put you in a box or inslave you. I do not want to be in a box or anyones slave so I do not like labels, although to get by and live sometimes you must use one or another, at that point I just understand that it is not me whatever the label is.
Love and Peace always Abby(C)
Wow, Labels. Why? Society labels things. People included, yet a man who is compasionate and loving is labled a sissy, yet that same man can be put in a combat situation and become a national hero. The Japanese recognized that we all have different qualities and in the way of Bushido (warriors way) it was manditory to learn to create art, poetry, and other what in America are considered feminine traits. It was also common for them to have same sex intercourse. I would not say they where gay, just being themselves. So why in our more modern society need to say someone is this or that. Just let us be ourselves and rejoice in the diversity. Look at nature. It knows lots of diversity. How poor our world would be without that diversity or our diversity. I may have a male body but I am a woman inside. Thankfully I can make changes to my body to make it appear more like who I am. I am married so does the label lesbian apply? I live as a female about 85% of the time…and more so everyday. So who makes up labels anyway…aren’t they for those that are insecure in themselves, and doesn’t it become a way for others to gather together for hate and persecution. The germans jews where persecuted because of a lable of hatered. Instead of seeing them as humans, or even as fellow germans, they where labeled so they could be persecuted and killed. No I am not a jew. Ok so my rant is over…
Oh, SO well said! Thank you Steph, it was truly refreshing to read your perspective (c:
I hate labels so dont use one at all, I’m just me.
Labels are usually incorrect and mean different things in different areas. When I was in the states I was talking to other girls at a a club and their definitions of transvestite and crossdresser were different to the definitions here in the UK. In the UK we also have ‘non-ops’ which at this club they called shemales. To call anyone in the UK a shemale would be the fastest way to get into the hospital. Labels also try to define a sexual orientation but here again definitions change. A label of heterosexual is even wrong as it doesn’t address are you asking from a biological or psychological point of view or a sense of the sex you are.
I use the term used for us by the first Americans, which is “Twin Spirit”. My name is Winter Naomi Vera and I am a Twin Spirit girl.
I think that’s beautiful. But that might just be romantic me.
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I have always thought of myself as being transgendered. My desire is to always present myself as a lovely and elegant woman. To also fall under the description of a Trans woman. My connection to being a TV or Drag Queen is non-existent. Being feminine makes make happy and that is the real purpose of life.
Hi,
In simmple terms both male & female . or intersexed, or as most people know me im a woman with a difference.
& really i dont mind what people call me . tho most just know im a woman. & leave it there,
…noeleena…