Supportive family members appear to be an important source of compassion and allyship for their transgender loved ones, and yet there is little research on the family members themselves. With growing recognition, researchers are increasingly focusing on these perspectives, yet there remains a dearth of literature that incorporates the perspectives of people with transgender parents. In this paper, I use 20 in-depth, semi-structured interviews to assess the empathetic self-constructions of participants as they describe their love and support for their transgender parent, while examining potential dangers of support that is underpinned by traditional norms related to gender, sexuality, and family. I introduce cisnormative empathy to identify this phenomenon, acknowledging the importance of empathy as a precursor to support and acceptance, while exploring how empathetic self-constructions combined with actions underpinned by cisnormativity may be counterproductive to the needs of transgender loved ones and the transgender community as a whole. I suggest that additional supports for transgender people’s loved ones are needed to help explore complicated emotions while also challenging cisnormative ideologies.

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Cisnormative 同理心：对跨性别者的爱、支持和同情心的批判性检查

支持性家庭成员似乎是他们的跨性别亲人同情和盟友的重要来源，但对家庭成员本身的研究却很少。随着越来越多的认识，研究人员越来越关注这些观点，但仍然缺乏包含跨性别父母观点的文献。在本文中，我使用了 20 次深入的半结构化访谈来评估参与者在描述他们对跨性别父母的爱和支持时的同理心自我构建，同时研究了以与跨性别相关的传统规范为基础的支持的潜在危险。性别、性取向和家庭。我介绍cisnormative 同理心识别这种现象，承认同理心作为支持和接受的先导的重要性，同时探索同理心的自我构建与顺应性支持的行动相结合如何可能对跨性别亲人和整个跨性别社区的需求产生反作用。我建议需要为跨性别者的亲人提供额外的支持，以帮助探索复杂的情绪，同时挑战顺式规范的意识形态。