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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 can deal with any number of labels, crossdresser, transgender, genderqueer, androgyne, tranny, whatever. Personally though, I like ambi-gendered. Then there’s not much chance of finding anyone exactly like me. 😀
I hate labels, labels were invented by people who don’t know how to address someone who doesn’t quite fit in their social knowledge.
I’ve one label, it says human.
If I would have to label myself then proud transgender human fits best, but I call myself sometimes lazy transvestite too, because I’ve feminized my face to some degree, not ffs. that’s a bridge I won’t cross, that would mean that I would shape my face to the standard of someone else, basically denying what I am, and came from. I’ve my pride.
Chantelle
I’d lable myself as a woman. The only time am labled anything from anyone else is when I speak, but that dosen’t change who I am.
I don’t know what i am. I consider myself a transgenderist since I dress like a girl and wants cosmetic surgery but don’t want SRS. I just want to be called a girl or woman in short.
I am in a situation where I came to understand ME after I was already married and have an unsupportive SO. I tend to refer to myself as Transgender…No-Op sounds so noncommittal. I’m leaving my options open…
i use m2f transwoman since most people understand (in their own way) one or the other terms, also use transgender in conversations when it clarifies – only word i avoid is female except for the phrase female identity. in my own head i’m a woman, or if necessary a male-bodied woman.
I am a woman. In talking with people about ftm & mtf’s I say either I am transexual or a transwoman; but in everyday life I am simply a woman and accepted as such.
If anyone would ever ask if I was a crossdresser or transvestite, I very quickly in no uncertain terms straighten them out.
Hi,
Well can only be a woman, what i have used over the years are,
Transfemale when talking with people in the begining some 16 years ago. an intersexed woman is realy what i am though most people know about myself & my background & they can make up thier own mind allthough most accept im a woman, & many know i am. just one who is some what different,
& those who know me dont care any way they have accepted who i am the way i am, & even the way i look or as i say dont look.
& when youv been in front of many 1000’s of people & people meet you they dont have a problem,
So when all said & done im just a woman.
..noeleena…