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LGBT ageing addresses issues and concerns related to the ageing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Older LGBT people are marginalised by: a) younger LGBT people, because of ageism; and b) by older age social networks because of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, heteronormativity (the assumption that everyone is heterosexual ...
Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders (SAGE) is America's oldest and largest non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning older people, focusing on the issue of LGBTQ+ aging. According to its mission statement, "SAGE leads in ...
A transgender (often shortened to ... Transgendered is a common term in older literature. Many within the transgender community deprecate it on the basis that ...
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.
In two cases in 2017, Botswana's High Court ruled trans men and trans women have the right to have their gender identity recognized by the government and to change gender markers; the court said the registrar's refusal to change a marker was unreasonable and violated the person's "rights to dignity, privacy, freedom of expression, equal ...
Transgender adults fear for the next generation as conservative lawmakers and advocates target trans inclusion in sports and health care.
Educator, author, and advocate Schuyler Bailar lays out six important points of introspection around transgender identity from his new book "He/She/They."
Transgender people are individuals that identify as a gender that differs from the one associated with their sex assignment.In some non-Western, ancient or medieval societies, transgender people may be seen as a different gender entirely, and there may be a separate category for them that is different from the binary of 'man' or 'woman'.