LGBT

It's very easy to tell trans folks that they can be who they are in their (our) heads...but that's forcing people to stay in or return to a closet where the rest of the world doesn't see you for who you are. It's worse than being invisible.

So if you're trying to make trans people feel better, please don't give facile advice, especially in person, no matter how well-meaning. If someone said that to me, I would understand that the gulf between us is so vast that they had no idea how it is for trans folks. And instead of asking, they just trotted out platitudes.