Everyone want to be treated with dignity and respect. It seems nothing wrong to have the need to be respected. For transgender people, being treated with dignity and respect is an unattainable dream. It is difficult to believe that the wold is so prejudiced against transgender people. Some famous and influential transgender people can be respected by the sociey, but for average transgender people, acceptance is still a serious problem. Most of people can understand and accept influential transgender people such as Laverne Cox, Jazz Jenning and more, while, they are always indifferent when they meet a transgender person in real life to have a ts date. In many people's eyes, transgender people is different from average people, and there is even a gap between famous transgender people and average transgender people. Inspiring stories form famous transgender people may powerful enough to make them be accepted and respected by other people, but I hope they can be focus on helping the whole transgender community to gain acceptance from the outside world.
From the past to now, transgender people have been living with indifferent and misunderstandings. It is hard for average people to understand their gender identity, transgender community is a strange group i many people's eyes. This is also one of the reason why most people are not willing to be friends with transgender people. They cannot accept transgender people, although we have been calling on the society for equal rights.
Acceptance and support are key factors that may affect the life of transgender people. No matter we are young or old, we want to be approvaled by our parents. As transgender people, they also want to be accepted and supported by their families especially their parents. There are a lot of transgender people have a different gender identity when they are kids, so the support from their parents would affect their later life. Most of parents want their kids to become the best one, while they don't really want to become the one that their parents want. In this way, mutrual understanding plays an important role in the relationship between kids and parents. For most of parents, it is not easy to accept their kids as transgender. As I've mentioned, understanding is the key to accept transgender people, understanding is also the key to maintain a relationship with transgender people. Understand and support their decisions if you cannot change them easily.