But he was introduced to Hudson's group last month, and volunteers have since replaced and tiled his bathroom floor, fixed his leaky kitchen faucet and installed a wheelchair ramp at the front entrance of his home.

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"If you look like a man and you live your life like a man, you should be able to use a man's bathroom, " said Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights lawyer for the advocacy group Lambda Legal.

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