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 Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.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
I like Winter’s “Twin Spirit girl”. I use crossdresser or tranvestite but don’t like either one as they make one sound “odd” which we are definitely not.
Krystyna
I would “label” myself as a cross dresser. Though now I hate the tem but transforming from male to female on a part time basis. I have yet to find a proper term. PLUS, as I mentioned in another blog I keep my male and female side completely separated so I am a male when in man mode and female when in woman mode. No other way to put it as far as I’m concerned.
Hi, Lucille, friends and family
HOW DO YOU “LABEL” YOURSELF
This being a subject that has struck a note within me.
Here in the UK have been born in the south of England, this would make me English, this being a label of my country of birth but not of who I am !
As a label of nationality I know myself as being British, tracing my family lines back in the not to far past, I find Irish and welsh and my love of Scotland would would have me say Scottish.
However I’m sure if I traced these lines back far enough I would find a host of nationalities, so the ultimate label that suits is HUMAN BEING.
But to cap it all I take the words from someone the world knows !
I AM WHO I AM author GOD
I don’t care for the typical gamut of labels
given to us. They are usually spouted off by
ignorance and pettiness. Now if I had to
choose, how about one that reflects who I
am. For example, woman. Even better,
HUMAN BEING.
Labels- I don’t like them if you a stuck with a label people assume
That the label defines who you are, the only time I would use
A label is when I with some one in the community. To everyone
else I am a transsexual as I am still waiting for surgery,once
that is done I will be a woman as I am now my proper
gender.
i call my self a shemale. aside from the pornfolks over taking it and bilking it . it does sound more scienific to me i mean you have male female and shemale. sooner or later that will be on gov’t forms it a matter of time.
If I were transitioned from he to she, one of those labels might apply, and would likely be understandable by most. The problem is that I embrace both of those labels, one at a time. I’m either he or she, never both or a mix. Given that, a number of the usual labels seem to fit ok, such as t-girl, bigendered, transgendered, tranny, or even transvestite. They all work for me.
I would say transexual for now. I really do not want to stay both a boy and girl. I really would rather be a complete girl all the time. Not flashy but attractive and confident. I’m not trying to impress anyone; I just feel more complete being a woman with breasts and the correct equipment below to please a man if the chance comes along. But for now I have a foot in both worlds and this is not where I really want to be.
Stacey Lane