We are taught to assign secondary sexual characteristics (ie. breasts, facial hair, vocal resonance, etc...) to gender without taking into account a person's personal gender identity when referring to them. A general misconception of the trans community is that all of its people strive for the same goals when transitioning (i.e. possessing all the attributes of what we consider to be that of men or women.) There are many reasons for why trans people may or may not decide to undergo hormone replacement therapy and/or various surgeries to manipulate their secondary sexual characteristics as a means of appearing more masculine or feminine. Such may be medical, financial, cultural, and/or personal. Many trans people don't identify within the binary (male and female) gender system our culture enforces and claim a non-binary identity under which countless gender identities exist and it is up to the individual to decide whether or not they wish to undergo surgeries and/or hormone replacement therapy. We need to respect trans identities for what they are and not dehumanize the individuals who do not appear to us initially as male or female. A trans woman's body is a woman's body and a trans man's body is a man's body regardless of the secondary sexual characteristics we observe and use to define gender. We need to let go of our ideas of what gender looks like .