Look up the menu online ahead of time and see if it included nutritional information. Chain restaurants often provide nutritional information online. See which items are lowest in sodium and plan to order those when eating out. See if the restaurant has any specifically low-salt items on the menu. Some restaurants may have a whole section for foods low in salt and sugar. Try politely requesting that you not have salt added to your food or that the cook cuts down on salt. Remember to be polite to wait staff. Say something like, "Is there any way I could request the food be prepared with less salt." If they oblige your request, say thank you. If you're ordering pizza or going to a pizza place, opt for ingredients that are lower in salt. Chicken and vegetables are generally the lowest salt items. Things like pepperoni and bacon tend to have a lot of salt. Cheese also contains a lot of salt. Request that the restaurant use cheese lightly. When eating out at Chinese or Indian restaurants, you often get salt on the side. Instead of asking for something like fried rice or flavored rice, request plain rice. Plain rice is usually much lower in salt. When eating at a sandwich place, order low salt options. Ham, pickles, and cheeses tend to have high salt. Instead, go for things like chicken, eggs, vegetables, and lower salt cheeses like mozzarella. You should also ask for light servings of condiments or request condiments on the side.

Summary: Research before dining out. Request your food be prepared without extra salt. Choose low salt pizza options. Opt for plain rice. Select the right fillings in sandwiches.

The instructions below can teach you the basics, and are useful emergency steps to take if your tank is suddenly full of young fish. However, taking care of young fish, or fry, is a real challenge, and the more you know about the traits of your specific species, the better. For more detail on a specific species, follow these guides for breeding and raising discus fish, gouramis, bettas, and guppies. Ask for advice from the employees at an aquarium store, or on aquarium hobbyist forums online. This is usually more helpful than advice from a general purpose pet store. If you have a water filter that sucks in water or creates a current, turn it off and put in a sponge filter from an aquarium store instead. Otherwise, the current could exhaust the young fish or even suck them into the filter and kill them. Many fish breeders set up a completely new tank, and move the eggs or the young into it. However, if you aren't an experienced aquarium caretaker, it can be difficult to make a safe, stable water environment on short notice. Instead, you may use a plastic divider net from an aquarium store to separate the fish. Depending on species, the parents can be caretakers or predators, so try to find advice online that matches your fish. If you can't, decide how to separate based on the parental behavior: If the parents laid eggs in a nest and defended them from other fish, use the net to divide the parents and the eggs on one side, and the other fish on the others. If the mother had a live birth, or sprayed the eggs in the water, keep all adult fish on one side of the net. The young fish should swim through the net to hide from them. You can sometimes purchase a specialized "fry food" product from aquarium stores, but often you'll need to choose from an array of other options. Infusoria, liquid fish food, or rotifers are usually safe. However, as the fish grow, they may need additional food that can vary based on the species and size. Ask an aquarium store employee for advice based on your fish's species. If you can't get to an aquarium store, feed the young fry hard boiled egg yolk pushed through a cheesecloth. Set up another tank in advance if you plan to keep some of the fish. Otherwise, contact local aquarium stores and aquarium hobbyists in advance to arrange how to sell or give away your young fish once they reach a certain age.

Summary: Research your species as much as possible. Replace the filter with a sponge filter. Separate the fish. Feed the fish fry food. Plan how to care for them as adults.

People who are not transgender or nonbinary are called "cisgender." Being cisgender means you rarely have to worry that people will mistake you for a gender that feels wrong. It means you are unlikely to experience familial rejection, unemployment, social isolation, or physical violence because of your gender identity. While some transgender people do not experience any of these problems, many do. Transgender people are at an outsize risk of physical violence from others. Due to physical attacks and familial rejection, transgender people experience high rates of suicide attempts. Recognize that being cisgender means that you avoid a lot of issues that transgender people have no choice but to face. Be a good ally and stand up for transgender people. If you hear someone putting down someone in your life, speak up and say that you respect that person and don't want to hear them insulted. If someone uses a slur or makes a joke or a prejudicial statement about gender-nonconforming people, tell them you are offended. You might say, "I don't appreciate you calling my friend a "tr*nny." You don't know what her life is. You should check yourself before you start putting down people based on their gender." Your time and money can help improve the quality of life of the transgender people you know and the ones you haven't met. Transgender youth experience high rates of homelessness due to familial abandonment or hostility. Consider donating to a shelter for LGBTQ youth. Advocate for better treatment of transgender prisoners, who are sometimes placed in the wrong facility based on their assigned sex. Support affordable healthcare for gender-affirming surgery, hormones, trans-friendly gynecology, and other treatments essential to the wellbeing of some transgender people.
Summary: Recognize cisgender privilege. Speak up if you hear transphobic statements. Donate to or volunteer with trans-positive causes.