How to respect a transgender woman in seven simple steps
How do you properly respect such a transgender person? Simple - there’s just a few essential instructions:
1. Use the appropriate gender pronoun
If you’ve known us for a long time in one gender and must get acclimated to another? That’s difficult - particularly at first. We know that - and won’t take offense if you slip now and then and still call us he. However, it can be dangerous if you slip too often - particularly in public environments. We never know when we might be seated next to a person who would react intensely by such disclosure. Also, we prefer to safely visit the ladies room without confrontation when nature calls.
What’s the easiest way to get accustomed to using to our new pronoun? Use it - even when we’re not around. Oftentimes, amongst a group of old friends, somebody starts referring to us as “he” - when its now “she” - and others chime into that same rhythm.
Would you like to be a transgender person’s hero? Then always use she and have the courage to correct others when they get it wrong.
2. Never use a mean “He”
The transgender equivalent of the N-word is the “mean he” - where somebody uses this masculine pronoun as a weapon to publicly out or demean a transgender woman.
It’s one of the cruelest things you can say: thus, please don’t!
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