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Aging is an inevitable process. Aging binds us all together. It does not see chromosomal context, psychosocial expression, race, class, gender identity, gender expression, gender perception, ethnicity, socio-economic status, or geographic boundary. In this paper, I will address some of the issues surrounding aging in the transgender communities. Initially, I will address the question of estimating the numbers of elderly transgendered both in the US and worldwide. Within this context, I will briefly address the issue of labeling a community for the purposes of census taking. I will then discuss some of the problems surrounding obtaining reliable estimates for the prevalence of transgender in the population. I will close with a discussion of some of the issues of transgender aging.