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 Outdated or offensive terms can be hurtful.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 simply feel comfortable when I put myself out their as a T-Girl it gives
me a sense of femininity which is the reason I can be bold and dress as I want when I want. T-Girl is an easy pharam phrase with people who stuggle to understand so its easy.Lots of outsiders can relate to T-Girl rather than CD.
I used to consider myself as merely a crossdresser but I soon began to realise that I was much more than that. The truth is that under different circumstances I would now probably be living as a full time, transgendered woman.
That is never going to happen but I don’t dwell on what if or maybe and by and large I’m perfectly happy to change roles from male to female as and when I can, though I must confess, it is easier changing into my feminine self than the reverse.
Even in male mode I seem to have more feminine traits than the average man. Female colleagues were surprised at first to meet a guy that was so empathic now, whenever they have a problem it’s invariably me that they turn to, particularly with but not solely, work related issues
So how do I see myself. Well I guess that as I’m not living as a full time woman I must be a part woman or am I a part time man.
I am much like Pippa. While the lab been thing is terribly frustrating, it is how we humans categorize the world around us. I cannot go full-time, much as I’d like to do that, though I am work working on changing parts of my body to be more in line with my brain. I can be comfortable enough in make mode to be content, but prefer being en femme. I don’t like to label myself, but I guess if pressed, perhaps a cross dressing trans woman? But you can call me Tara.
The way you describe yourself sounds to me like you are gender fluid. Comfortable with going back and forth as the mood or the moment necessitates. Either way, you are you and that is what is important.
Gender fluid. I’s not an expression that I have come across before but it does seem to epitomise the real me. Thanks for the insight
I have different parts and most of them identify as female. I also feel a kinship and connection with all women. I often pass for being a woman and yet I am not a woman. Technically I guess I consider myself a gender deviant or non-conforming. I guess I would just call myself Trans, which is easily understood by most people.
This topic really confuses me and I’m the one with the gender identity “disorder.” Don’t get me started on that. I’m not the one with the disorder. I know who I am but, when I tell people that I’m a lesbian, they look at me like, “what?!” and say, “you’re a guy.” I giggle a little and tell them that just because some doctor thought I should be a boy and took the girl parts away doesn’t mean that I’m a boy. It means that some doctors play god and get it FUBAR. I was born with boy and girl parts. It happens (more than you know). Anyway, being that I was a G-girl and a G-boy with all the working parts, I am the one that’s confused. Regardless, I call myself a transgendered woman because everyone else calls me that. It’s not a big deal. I’m a girl that looks like a boy who’s going back to being a girl.
Wow! What adults will do to an innocent baby. I’m still pissed at my parents having me circumcised without my permission. I call it mutilation. Good luck with your quest!
Back in the 60s, they didn’t know how to deal with this anymore than they did in the days of the Bible. To quote the Virginia Slims ad, “We’ve come a long way, baby.”
I have been approached a few times, because of my height 6′ 5″, and wide shoulders, big hands, and my voice. When asked I say I am a transsexual woman.
But this seldom happens anymore. I just go about my business. An I smile a lot. All my identification says, I am female.
I don’t have the early life experiences of a genetic woman, can never have a period or become pregnant , handling all life little events occurring to young females.
But I am happy having physically changed my body, to match my female mind.
At times, I’m totally masculine. At times, I wish I could explore every feminine fantasy I’ve ever had and explore life as a woman. What is that? Some of my thoughts are idealized. What would it be like to be a truly beautiful woman? Imagine looking at a beautiful woman on a beach through a window and admiring her beauty, her sexuality, her femininity. Wanting to know how she sees the world and experiences it. Then imagine you could change the window into a mirror and still see her, because you are now her, have become her. What is that? Empathy? I desire to explore the “other side” of humanity? My feminine heart wanting expression? I’m not TG since I’m fine with being a man much of the time. So, what do I call myself then? Gender fluid? Perhaps in my next life I can be that beautiful woman. Then, likely, I’ll discover that reality is different from fantasy. I suspect it’ll be different than I imagine now. Perhaps, just perhaps, I’ll be a woman that wants to be a man. If only there was a magic wand so that I might change into man or woman at will. How different the world would be if we could all do that.
Labels….. it’s something I have long pondered, the problem is that what a label means tends to vary depending on who your talking to and where does one stop and another start we all tend to blur the lines from time to time. I
can’t put myself in a particular label I dress because it helps me to relax but I usually have something female on 95% of the time. There are aspects of my male side I loathe but my female side has its bad points as well, I think people in general were never really ment to fit into neat catagorys, if we were all the same life would be so boring 🙂
Labels are for lingerie and can goods. Although I have just taken one….as of as of last week. ….widow
So sorry for your loss.