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 Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.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
Truthfully, I do not know what to label myself. I feel like there is two half’s of me. One side is male and the other is female. Since I am in guy mode most of the time, I label myself gay or queer. But then there is my female side, who doesn’t know what to call herself. Hell, both as a whole, I do not know what to call myself. I guess I am a crossdresser. Well, whatever I call myself whether its gay, queer, or CD, I am over all human. Yes, that’s what my label is human. ^_^ ^_~
-Daphne Knight
Although I have been doing what I can to grow my own breasts, Lucille’s program, I want to live as a man. If I have to label myself, it would be swmwb – Single White Male With Breasts.
Dave
I think labels are not a good thing but people seem to have to pigeon-hole things to get an understanding. I use the word ‘transexual’ and sometimes ‘shemale’. Neither of which is complimentary and I only use them in an ‘if you must label me’ situation. To my friends at the pub, I am simply ‘Leanne’, that is a label that I do like.
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No label whatsoever. I am Lindsey, nothing more, nothing less. It’s always amusing to hear ignorant people ask totally inappropriate questions of our community. And I cannot repeat them here, but you know what I’m talking about because the standard reply always is, “None of your concern.”
Had a few of those, Lindsey! I use an expression from the TV programme ‘The Last Leg’, ‘Don’t Be a Dick!’.
I’m sure there will be a time when I become tempted to respond as you did when saying, “Don’t be a …” but I pray not to add fuel to fire by throwing a label back at them. Such an approach has no guarantee of changing anyone but me for the better.
I think the “TRANNYS” in the past created a bad image, that
has created that “LABEL” which isn’t necessary, is it?.
Certainly every transgendered person started out as “CD”,
it had to start somewhere didn’t it > so what!.
So once you start to transition, that is taking hormones of
some level, you become transsexual as transgender>so what!.
So we became monsters did we, no we didn’t!.
As I have put elsewhere, just because we wear different
gender clothing – did we become dishonest, no; did we throw away our values, well I didn’t , I hope others didn’t either, but no.
Have most of us stopped pulling our weight in the world, no.
Did we become violent, well I didn’t, I hope others didn’t either, but no. I have put somewhere else I’m proud to be
transgendered, but I don’t want the label, with or without
being transgendered. To Lucille, is this the sort of answer
you wanted(no offence intended), to the other girls have I hit the right button?
I really dont care for labels ,Ive was born in a males body but have been feeling female since the age of four, so if the people want to label me put me in the female label, please and thank you.
I’ve always wondered whether I have a stronger femme side than most men, but am ‘straight’ and love everything about women, including frequently dressing in their clothes, emphasising my breasts etc. If it’s a label, then ‘part-time crossdresser’. I have not ‘come out’ to family, but my ex-wife (we were together 25 years) says she left me because of it (I suspect that was a bit of an excuse). I never hid it totally from her.
I have been labeled as a T-girl and I don’t mind it because it makes me feel good knowing that I am a woman and God is the one who created me as a beautiful transgender woman.