How will the young TQ+ cope with bodily aging?

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[–]EveSerpent 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Wow. All I can say to that is JFFFC. What a total POS.

Totally onboard with your idea of locking all of those people up in a room with TIMs. They should be forced to work in care facilities with TIMs for at least a year too.

[–]BEB 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There's a GC twitter user who claims that in Oregon or Washington (can't remember which) TiMs are working as aides in women's nursing home facilities as if they are women. What an insult to elderly women, who deserve dignity, privacy and safety in their last years.

[–]EveSerpent 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

JFC once again.

[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's a been a big push for this to happen for a number of years, led by a organization in the midwest called the Transgender Aging Network or TAN, founded & headed by biologically female person who used to be a lesbian.

One senior care facility said:

“As I am only part-time in each gender, I am worried that I will be in some situation that will force me to be considered totally masculine... like being assigned to ‘the boy’s room,’ meaning exile from femininity.”

More generally:

TAN employees regularly host workshops and trainings on transgender aging issues for health-care professionals, elder-care providers, and national aging organizations. The most common questions, she said, are ones about segregated living spaces: “People want to know, ‘What gender roommate do I give [a transgender senior]?,’ ‘What bathroom do they use?’,” she said. “There’s still a basic lack of understanding of how gender identity trumps biological sex, and that people should have access to facilities that match their gender identity.”

The roommate question, in particular, can be fraught with complications. Brett [a 69 year-old TIF who has spent most of his/her life in institutions] recently experienced what life might be like for him in a long-term care facility when he checked in for a temporary stay in a St. Paul nursing home to recover from a back injury. After a week in a single room, he said, he was assigned a male roommate—but he worried that a roommate of either gender would soon discover that he was transgender, a fact he didn’t want to be publicized.

"A female would have a problem with me, and I’d have a problem with a male,” he said. “I wouldn’t want him to know about me … And with the gossip in nursing homes, that secret would last about a week.”

Rather than take a roommate, Brett left the nursing home and went to stay with his daughter, who took over caring for him as he recovered.

Bet Brett's daughter was thrilled to have her mother who is now pretending to be a man moving in with her & demanding care & catering.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/transgender-nursing-home-aging/400580/

[–]one1won 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Have you run across this resource yet?

http://patientmodesty.org/genderneutralrisks.aspx

Nightmare examples, of males