When it comes to transgender representation in media, the options are pretty grim. Overall, we see few trans people on television or in magazines, but that is slowly changing. As it changes, though, model Hari Nef points out it's not enough just to put transgender people on-screen. We also need to change how we represent transgender people, the same way we need to change how transgender people are treated in day-to-day life.

Hari guest-edited the latest issue of Candy magazine. In the issue, Hari included photos of transgender people being loved without exploitation — a seemingly common sense move, but one that represents a radical shift from how we usually see transgender people in media. In an Instagram post, Hari talked about how important it is to do that.

"tbh the only people whose unsolicited opinions i care about are trans people and the girls have responded to this editorial in a way i think might be worth addressing," Hari wrote. "Images of trans femmes being loved rarely exist outside of pornography. We tend to be hyper-sexualized and objectified within the cisgender gaze. Either that or we're dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses."

This isn't the first time Hari has pointed out this issue. Refinery 29 points out Hari told Good a few years ago that transgender people face exploitation in media daily. Hari, who is a transgender woman, said she's constantly being asked to show her breasts in photo shoots. This is because of the obsession cisgender people have with transgender bodies, wanting them to be exposed to fulfill curiosity, create scandal, or humiliate. The reality is transgender bodies are bodies like all others. They don't exist to answer questions or to scratch a mental itch. That's why Hari included images of herself being touched and loved respectfully in her issue of Candy.

"These came from the realization that I'd never seen images of trans women (with men) that were erotic but tender too," Hari wrote on Twitter.

On Instagram, Hari said some cisgender people are starting to respect transgender people, but actually loving them is still up in the air.

"Neoliberal circles have begun a slow and clumsy journey toward understanding trans folks and maybe respecting us," she wrote. "Loving us remains a question to be answered (even if it's a no-brainer)."

We agree that it's a no-brainer. Hari's images are powerful in how normal they are. In the familiarity of the depicted intimacy, it's quite obvious that loving a trans woman is just loving a person, and that's a beautiful thing.

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