1. Safe distance
Comparing with face-to-face encounter, online dating is safer for transgender people. They don't need to meet a stranger in real life, dating is based on mutual understanding.
2. Safe match
Comparing with other way of dating, dating partners they meet online are safer. Users of trans dating sites are transgender people or transgender dating admirers, they can really accept transgender people and transgender dating. Dating with someone who can really accept transgender people is safer than dating anyone else.