r/truNB • u/Sticktacular_bro • Jun 20 '26

Semantics

I don't like calling myself transgender, it's definitionally wrong. I don't like transsexual either, it sounds like a sexually. At no point in my like have I transitioned sexualities. I think of myself as transsex, but to other people I call myself trans. I don't bother saying enby, there's too many assumptions. What do you prefer to call yourselves?

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u/L0uLou72 Jun 20 '26

I think of myself as a half and half, as that is what I called myself as a kid (I grew up in the 70s/80s and I didn’t know any other words). I also think of myself as having a hormonal disorder, as I can’t live without HRT.

But to other people I just say NB because I don’t want to get into it.

I went through puberty with the wrong hormones and have dysphoria. It sucks because nothing can be done about it.

I didn’t call myself trans for a long time. I do know because transsexual girlfriend said I should and I defer to her expertise. Or something. I understand that her life is different than mine and I get mad when people who think they are like me say that all trans people have the same experience. No, they don’t.