Time to stop the aged care transgender prejudice

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/3737440/time-to-stop-the-transgender-prejudice/?src=rss

Border Mail/By Shana Morgan Feb. 18, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

"Helping older transgender women become accepted in aged care or retirement has become a passion for Rachel Richardson.


Many of the earliest people to adopt transformations had started to come into their later years.

"We're at a point where we're actually going into the retirement phase so they're looking at aged care options," she said."

This terrifies me. Now I can wear a wig and go out in public and no one knows for sure that I'm trans. When I get older and can't take care of myself and have to rely on professionals, they'll see my head and know I'm trans. Will they be biased against me?