Transgender Question and Answer Archive

I apologize in advanced for this lengthy question that requires some background information. I don’t know what to identify as. As much as I hate labels, I need one. I know what I feel, but at times it is difficult to articulate. I want to come out, but I don’t even know what to come out as. That and I also just want to be part of a community of people who understand and can accept me but I can’t do that if I don’t know what the words for what I am are. I was born a female. There are days where I love my body; my long hair, my breasts, wearing feminine clothing. There are days where I love being a girl, and feel like a girl. And then there are other days where I wake up and I don’t feel like a woman. I want to cut off all my hair, tape down my chest, wear mens clothing and bemoan the fact that my eyebrows have such a feminine arch. I hate my female body then because on those days I feel like a man. This has been happening since I was thirteen. I am now 20. Sometimes I identify as a man, and sometimes I identify as a woman. I’ve heard the terms transgender and transitioning but it didn’t seem to fit because some days I LOVE being a woman. I feel like both a woman and a man so taking testosterone and getting top surgery…just never appealed to me. I have no idea what to identify as gender wise and because of this I don’t know how to label my sexuality. I am attracted to both males and females; but I tend to be more attracted to males as a whole and females are kind of on an individual basis.  So I guess my question is…based off of this information, what would be the correct term for me to use in regards to identifying my gender and my sexuality?

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  1. Val Jan 1, 2013 at 20:48

    I would say that your sexual orientation is Bi, since you are attracted to both males and females. Your gender is female with male tendencies. You are very lucky to be able to understand both genders and to have a unique perscpective on the sexes.

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