linkHowever, once Social Security records are consistent with a person's gender there still could be issues with accessing benefits. A National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce Study reports, "Transgender elders may or may not be able to access Social Security spousal, survivor or disability benefits. Heterosexual transgender elders are often unable to marry because their state does not recognize their gender transition. Likewise, transgender elders in same- sex partnerships cannot marry unless their state does not recognize their transition. While transgender people who can currently marry will receive the same spousal retirement, survivor, and disability benefits that non-transgender married people receive, even these marriages may be threatened, depending upon judicial interpretations of new anti-marriage laws."
