...the same argument when attempts have been made to provide them with their own apartment buildings or communities, calling it segregation. I can see their point, but given the choice between occupying segregated housing that caters to my needs, and integrated housing that doesn't, I'll opt for the former.

It's not fair, it's not right. But even now, if an LGBT individual moves into a nursing home dominated by those who are not, there are going to be residents who won't like it, particularly if that person is trans. I fear that I might have difficulty finding a place that will take me should I ever require a nursing home rather than the assisted-living situation I'm in now. No woman would want to room with me if I'm still pre-op, and I wouldn't be able to afford a room of my own.

Where I live now, in a disabled/senior apartment complex, there are only a tiny minority who disapprove of me, true. But why should I have to endure even that tiny minority? Why should I have to put up with their glares and the catty, outrageous rumors they spread? I'd be applying at this place in San Francisco tomorrow were I able to do so.