Interviews / Videos

My Genderation – About the Trans Ageing & Care Project, Wales. As part of the same series, Never Too Late To Come Out As Transgender: Heartfelt Stories (2020). 

Louise Jennings, a 99 year old transgender woman from the UK, shares a bit about her life, with the BBC World News (2018). 

Short video from the AFP News Agency about a care home specifically for transgender elderly in Indonesia (2013). 

Articles

Trans Women and Aging: A Qualitative Study – “Data from interviews with 11 transgender women ages 55 to 77 were used to examine the experiences of gender-diverse individuals throughout the lifespan.”

Fredriksen-Goldsen, K., & Satin, B. (2016). Aging Out in the Queer Community: Silence to Sanctuary to Activism in Faith Communities. Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, 40(2), 30-33. doi:10.2307/26556196. An interview with Barbara Satin about her transgender and LGBTQ Aging activism. 

Gill-Peterson, J. (2018). Transgender Boyhood, Race, and Puberty in the 1970s. In Histories of the Transgender Child (pp. 163-194). Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved January 23, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv75d87g.9. A useful analysis of female-to-male transition narratives in the 1970’s and 1980’s medical establishment.

Cook-Daniels, L. (2001). Is Your “T” Written in Disappearing Ink? A Checklist for Transgender Inclusion. Published by FORGE and Transgender Aging Network. Retrieved on July, 30, 2005.

Cook-Daniels, L. (2006). Trans aging. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender aging: research and clinical perspectives, 20-35.

Finkenauer, S., Sherratt, J., Marlow, J., & Brodey, A. (2012). When injustice gets old: A systematic review of trans aging. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 24(4), 311-330.

Hanes, D. W., & Clouston, S. A. (2020). Ask Again: Including Gender Identity in Longitudinal Studies of Aging. The Gerontologist.

McFadden, S. H., Frankowski, S., Flick, H., & Witten, T. M. (2013). Resilience and multiple stigmatized identities: Lessons from transgender persons’ reflections on aging. In Positive psychology (pp. 247-267). Springer, New York, NY.

Persson, D. I. (2009). Unique challenges of transgender aging: Implications from the literature. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 52(6), 633-646.

Siverskog, A. (2014). “They just don’t have a clue”: Transgender aging and implications for social work. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 57(2-4), 386-406. 

Williams, M. E., & Freeman, P. A. (2007). Transgender health: Implications for aging and caregiving. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 18(3-4), 93-108.

Witten, T. M. (2014). It’s not all darkness: Robustness, resilience, and successful transgender aging. LGBT health, 1(1), 24-33.

Witten, T. M., (2015). Elder transgender lesbians: Exploring the intersection of age, lesbian sexual identity, and transgender identity. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19:1, (pp.73-89)

Witten, T. M. (2016). The intersectional challenges of aging and of being a gender non-conforming adult. Generations, 40(2), 63-70.