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“I never thought transition would be a reality in my lifetime. After struggling for years, I finally asked Cheryl, ‘What about surgery?’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Go for it.’ Finally she had realized how serious I was. Every night I used to sit in the lanai smoking away, and just thinking, ‘Can I do it? Can I not? Can I do it? Can I not?’ Every night. For years. I also had bad asthma, COPD, sleep apnea, acid reflux, migraines, you name it. But when I started going through the motions everything pretty much vanished overnight. All those illnesses, all those stresses, gone. I said to Cheryl that I felt so good I could probably give up smoking and I wouldn’t even notice. Didn't have another one.” - SueZie, 51, Valrico, FL, 2015 Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. For over five years (2013–2018), photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults.” Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore” includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals. See “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” on display in the Ruth Kadish Gallery located in the post-security connector between Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 and online at: https://bit.ly/3AwDbid This image was posted on August 14, 2024.