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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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
Hi,
I’m a Woman, plain and simple. I was born with a nasty birth defect, a male body. Putting that right was no different to me than closing up a cleft palette or having ears pinned back. I have never understood the fuss.
Heather.
I don’t like being labelled, nor do I like labels. Labels put people into boxes. Labels are a devisive method of creating division between people.
If you want to stop the prejudice, and if you want to stop the division, get rid of the labels and show the world we are no different to anyone else, because the truth is, we aren’t!
We are all flesh and blood human beings, and even at our very core, at a sub atomic level that is, we are all made up from the same thing. It is only humans, with our defunct out dated education systems, which perpetuate division, fear and ignorance, that cause people to believe otherwise.
Get rid of the labels.
I don’t mind being labeled as a transwoman because I am woman but I look like a guy right now… Plus I really love being who I am and all the work is worth energy to be complete!
I am and have been a girl for a long time, what other may label me up to them.
I am really just a girl with “something extra”. I have always thought like a girl but since a youth been trained to be a boy.
i am born male and from my childhood i feel like girl. the desire is high now. i cant change sex due to money problem and transgender of course i am….
A Titaness.
I have only just seen this blog (due to it being in 2011 and me only ‘joining’ FS this year), on a more recent blog I asked the rhetorical question as to what label suited me. One girl responded, and advised not to use a label as I will only cause myself (mental) pain.
I just don’t understand, like a lot of girls here, why labels are required… perhaps with the exception of the medical profession where it would be valid for certain procedures and treatments. Otherwise, labels are generally only used by people in a cruel or demeaning way to insult and victimise others. Until labels are cast aside, how will the world ever accept minorities who do not fit into traditional ‘normal’ boxes?
I just LOATHE the TV word (can’t even write it) and the similarly derogatory tranny term that is used so much by males in their childish ‘humour’ and is used almost always for anyone anywhere between the male/female ‘norms’.
I suppose that for most of my journey on this road if forced I’d have to use a mixture of the two labels TV and cross dressing, as my objectives were to dress up and sometimes experience sexual pleasure… which I am almost ashamed to write of (but I am only human, so forgive me please).
But more recently, in last 12-24 months, it is like a switch has flipped inside my head, now I would love to be able to dress 24/7 and just BE a woman, get rid of the ugly bits between my legs, I am changing the way I do many things both physically and mentally, I have softened my approach to people and think about their feelings more than I ever used to, do my femme walk as much as possible in my flat man shoes but without exaggeration, underdress all the time, etc. As soon as I am home from work I shed my male attire and wear female clothes which, now, just feel so comfortable and RIGHT on me. And when I am finished, I change into a nightie/chemise and it is off to bed, just like any other girl. So now, rightly or wrongly, I’d call myself a transexual.
But I’d love to be called a girl/lady… should I ever come out of my closet and go out en-femme, but all these horrible labels make me afraid to do so and lose all that is important to me.