Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Elders Need Our Help

Here’s how you can help SAGE help queer elders this Transgender Awareness Week

James Finn
Prism & Pen
7 min readNov 16, 2021

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Lisa Oakley, a U.S. Army veteran denied health care because she’s a transgender woman. Copyright: Claire Cleveland/CPR News

Thanks to President Joe Biden, the U.S. military has stopped barring transgender people from serving. Transgender military veterans, however, often struggle to receive the lifelong medical care all veterans are entitled to. One trans woman veteran

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.