Respect looks different to each person, and the transgender that feel respectful to one person may feel disrespectful to another. Use these tips to start a conversation about respect.
Respect their body, including the words they use to talk about it, and their choice to take or not take hormones and have surgeries or other medical treatments.
Respect their mobility, hearing, seeing, and sensory or other accessibility needs. Show them how much you love them by never manipulating them into sex or other kinds of affection.
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Respect their ability to make decisions for themself about the daily things they need in their life. This includes decisions click to see more when and where they sleep, what and how much they eat, needing time to be alone, and continue reading always being the person to take care of your emotional or other needs. Respect them as a whole person; accept responsibility for your share of the child care or house work and do not treat them as an extension of yourself.
It can be scary learning to trust, but controlling them just means pushing them to make a choice between you, and everyone else they care about. Even if they choose you in the moment, no one can can choose that in the long run. Be transgender with them, make time to talk with them about things that are important to them, have patience to work through difficult emotions without blaming them, putting them down, or becoming abusive, accept responsibility for your own emotions and actions, and only expect them to take responsibility for theirs.
Respect their economic situation, including their choice to do sex work or to not do sex work, do not prevent them from working or take their money or expect them to pay for your expenses.
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Do not insist that they share with you the intimate details of their past sexual experiences. Respect the histories of their people, and the ways in which gender and sex characteristics might be thought about differently than in your own culture.
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