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 Outdated or offensive terms can hurt, so it’s okay to set boundaries about how others address you.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 think of myself as a Transgendered woman, I have for years.
Hello Lucille I usually label myself as a sissy crossdresser just how I see myself
I’m not sure I need a label to describe myself and I dislike the angry discussions which sometimes flow from this issue. In the end, I’m just another person on a wide spectrum of people.
I am a woman! I happen to have a transsexual history, but have transitioned, I have been living my authentic life for over 20 years. I am a woman!
When I first came out it was as a cross dresser and lived that way for several years. I was still married and the first two years we belonged to an group for cross dressers and there signifent other while living in Wyoming. We lost that group when we moved to Texas and I started dressing more and more until my wife said that I was not a man and should start living as a woman but that she did not want to live with another woman so we devorsed. At that time I considered my self as a transgender woman. Now that I am on female hormons and am under a mental professional starting the proses of having sex reassignment I just consider my self as a women.
I am a woman (aren’t most of us?).
As I was born in a wrong body and decided to do my best to change my body, I have to go through trans(ition) and therefore I accept the term trans woman or transgender woman when dealing with the day to day transition aspects but in general I would like to be “labeled” as a female/woman only, just the way I am.
Rosie
I am a man with strong female inner feelings. I like to dress up and wear make up and go out several times a month. I enjoy my time as a women.
The feelings aren’t strong enough to want to change and go down the path of transition, though I do envy those that have. I am happy to be labeled a TV, a CD or T’girl. X
if i am to be perfectly honest , i am who i am and not what i expected to be .
so i suppose you could insert me under me under the transgender cloud