tgirl also

[Karin A]

Sorry, I meant to ask about this word also. Do we use that to describe ourselves sometimes? I am way too PC it seems. :heehee:

Karin

[Edyta_C]

While I am far from any sort of expert on terminology, I will venture a try. I think that all of us are Cder, that is we cross dress. There are some who are farther to the femme side internally. These are the ladies who feel the need for closer to 24/7 dressing. Slightly further along the spectrum are those who feel that they are actually girls in boys body. These ladies go for surgery. Some of us only feel the need to dress occasionally. So there is a whole spectrum of "femmeness" with in our community. I associate the Tgirl more with the end of the spectrum where the CDer wishes to dress all the time or have SRS. Of course that is just my view. I am sort of in the middle of the spectrum. At one time I might have thought about becoming more of a girl (surgery). Now I am happy with being both guy and girl at different times. This is probably a older perspective.

Hugs and hope this helps Edyta

[TommiTN]

My understanding of the term (and I could be totally wrong; it does happen on rare occasions :D) is that "tgirl" usually refers to a m2f transexual, either pre- or post op. However, it can also refer to a male who is simply transgendered, which can mean anything from simple CDing, part or full time, to someone who is closer to being a transexual than a CDer (may have had surgical feminization to the face and breasts). I know of at least one website that uses the word in it's name, but most of the members seem to be CDers.

To kill two birds with one stone, I think we use "gurl" to acknowledge the fact that we are not GGs.

My brain hurts. I'm gonna go take a nap now...

[Nicki B]

Tgirl, like TG, is very commonly used to describe any MTF in the trans community?

CDer tends to be a particularly US term?

[Jocelyn Renee]

Bi-gendered is the term I think best fits my own situation, but I generally refer to myself as transgendered, TG, or tgirl as these terms are more widely known. I'm not personally offended by any of the other common terms we throw around in the community though. Perhaps the best label to apply to all of us would simply be "human".

[CD Susan]

Bi-gendered is the term I think best fits my own situation, but I generally refer to myself as transgendered, TG, or tgirl as these terms are more widely known. I'm not personally offended by any of the other common terms we throw around in the community though. Perhaps the best label to apply to all of us would simply be "human".

This is the way I feel about it too. I don't care to use the labels that society likes to attach to us. I am just me and very much a human.

[Holly]

How about just <insert name here>. No, seriously. Does it really matter what other people call us as long as they are respectful?

[Karin A]

Hi Girls,
I'm sorry to keep pursuing something that you all seem to have considered quite deeply in alot of instances. But I do alot of webwork, so I am trying to be PC to not p*** off any of my potential customers, etc. Besides, I love people and don't want to offend them unnecessarily out of my own ignorance.

Thank you all for weighing in... I agree, as long as someone treats me with respect, I will respect them too. And it really does depend on who you are with, who is calling you that name, and how they say it that matters....

Karin

[Nadia-Maria]

Does it really matter what other people call us as long as they are respectful?

Yes, I think so. It matters. And it obliges us to know who we are and to teach it to others, and especially to others in our very community.

Kisses


TG Nadia

[Empress Lainie]

I do a lot of hopefully educating the ignorant. I can be wrong too, you know.

Bi-gendered folk can comfortably live as either male or female and some I know switch back and forth depending on how they feel. I thought at the very first I was bi-gendered. That didn't last a week.

I am definitely one who truly is a woman in a male body, looking back I can see it all the way from 3 yrs old, but I had no way to know what it was until 1979, and I still didn't get it. Just thought I was a peculiar man.

Professionals don't all agree on transgender and transexual, but most of them I think put everything not "normal" and " straight" into the umbrella of transgendered, including ts, and cd, mtf, ftm bigendered.

Transexuals some pro's use only for post op transwomen or transmen, other people use transexual for any mtf or ftm. My doctors refer in reports to me as a transexual woman. I am pre- or maybe non- op.

Terms used for mtf's are tgirl, tranny, trans, *******.
******* is so used in the porn business that most of us dislike the use of the term. Personally I have no problem with tranny, trans, transwoman, or tgirl.
I actually prefer just "woman."

ftms are usually referred to as transmen. Alan correct me if I am wrong and there are more terms used. I haven't heard of others.

I will never introduce myself as a transgendered woman again since I was fired for doing so to people I didn't know. There are heavy discrimination suits filed. I have been out of work for over a year. At 73 NO ONE is going to hire you, they don't even respond to applications.

One other term hermaphrodite also called intersexed, or intersexual. Usually have complete or partial genitals of both sexes. There is a fully functional one so I have been told in Las Vegas who is a doctor and sometimes appears male and sometimes appears female, AND THE DRIVER LICENSE SAYS B FOR BOTH. A friend of mine has seen it and knows him/her.

Hope this clarifies rather than muddies things for you.