We increasingly believe that even if a gender non-conforming child is misdiagnosed as trans and allowed to transition as a child, and then de-transitions, he will be far better off having had his sense of self respected by his family.
Mrs. Ryder saved her self-respect by not asking her to stay.
And help her gain protections and the attendant sense of self-respect by supporting the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.
The only hope for fiscal sanity now lies with the Senate, where members can retain their self-respect by refusing to cough up the necessary votes.
Just as they did Sunday in San Diego, the Mets retained some self-respect by salvaging their series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.
One almost gasps at the shame that has been inflicted on the nation's reputation and self-respect by this administration's treatment of military prisoners.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for example, had always openly loved Donald Trump, who is now doing his best to squish what is left of Sessions's self-respect, by saying that he ought never to have hired him.
Les, who has won 118 best-in-shows, close to the breed's record of 126, preserves his self-respect by not being emotional for those who want him to jump for joy.
When the good writers tried to regain their self-respect by becoming political activists in the Stalinist style, it was calamitous to talent; the Algonquin group's own style was lost as their voice blended into the preachy, self-righteous chorus.
Especially affecting is the episode where the kids learn about prejudice, fortitude and self-respect by reading The Diary of Anne Frank, and then raise the money to bring to their school the elderly Miep Gies, the Austrian-born Dutchwoman who sheltered the Frank family.
Mr. Mohamed, a sixth-grade dropout and son of a doorman, said Colonel Qaddafi had brought Libyans self-respect by kicking out foreign colonialists; under Colonel Qaddafi, Libyans celebrated a national holiday every year on the day the United States evacuated the air base that included the hospital where Mr. Mohamed was held.
