For many transgender seniors, a wave of new state laws enacted this year limiting transgender people's rights, it's brought new fears to their plans for retirement and old age.
Participants march with a rainbow flag during Seattle's annual Gay Pride Parade on Sunday, June 24, 2012. Rajee Narinesingh faced struggles throughout her life as a transgender woman, from workplace discrimination to the lasting effects of black market injections that scarred her face and caused chronic infections.
Most of the new state laws have focused attention on trans youth, with at least 22 states banning or restricting gender-affirming care for minors. About 171,000 of the more than 1.3 million transgender adults in the United States are aged 65 and older, according to numbers compiled by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
"Do you really want to be moving into a place where you have to explain yourself and have to go through it over and over?" Vincent said."It's exhausting, and so I think being able to be in a comfortable environment is important." "I just am going on my 71 years on this earth and walking in the civil rights march with my mother at age six and then marching for gay rights," Arieagus said."I've been blessed enough to see so many changes being made in the world. And then now I'm having to see these wonderful progressions going backwards."
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