@unsolvedtwt tweeted this helpful thread for anyone who is still confused about how to use basic etiquette when talking to transgender people or about transgender people. It’s nothing at all complex or confusing, just a few simple and easy tips on how to address people properly and not to be offensive with inappropriate questions or comments. Here is the thread of basic, very basic trans etiquette:
Source: @unsolvedtwt
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I think it’s okay to us their birth name IF you’re explaining to someone else who they are, if that person only knew them by that name and wasn’t aware it had changed, as I did for my mother about Elliot Page.