HOW CAN I BE A BETTER ALLY?
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✩ You can't tell if someone is transgender just by looking.
✩ Don't make assumptions about a transgender person's sexual orientation.
✩ If you don't know what pronouns to use, listen first or ask them.
✩ Don't ask a transgender person what their dead name (the name they were given at birth) is.
✩ Understand the differences between "coming out" as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and "coming out" as transgender.
✩ Be careful about confidentiality, disclosure, and "outing."
✩ Understand there is no "right" or "wrong" way to transition, and that it is different for every person.
✩ Don't ask about a transgender person's genitals, surgical status, or sex life.
✩ Be patient with a person who is questioning or exploring their gender identity.
✩ Respect the terminology a transgender person uses to describe their identity.
✩ Challenge anti-transgender remarks or jokes in public spaces, including LGBTQIA2S+ spaces.
✩ Support all-gender public restrooms.
✩ Help make your company or group truly trans-inclusive.
✩ Listen to transgender people.
✩ Learn that transgender people are not new.