FTM Transgender Adult Transition Help
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Hello, I'm Raile. I'm a 25 year old transman who has, despite every effort and records of this dating back to when I was six, never been able to transition. Reasons include a family that outright ignored my gender identity, a psychiatric community that did the same and also decided my ADD was way more important (and also ignored my other, more serious conditions like OCD), and persistent problems involving life in general--six months of unemployment at the beginning of last year, a financially exploitative roommate until this January, and so on.
I've been actively trying on my own for about six years, but every year something happens, or multiple things happen, and I've been living on 'maybe next year,' 'next year will be better.'
Well, that hasn't happened.
In the meantime, my various dreams--publishing written works, for example--are all on hold, and I've been battling with increasingly severe depression and suicidal thoughts. It's reached the point where I have been contemplating suicide instead of reaching 27 without transitioning--which is about the point when I might feasibly have a chance of affording it again.
I have younger friends who are determined that I give this a shot. So... here we are.
Here is the breakdown of costs:
- 280 for a name change. Georgia is unpleasantly expensive in this regard.
- 30 bucks a clinic visit at the low income clinic. Multiply by six for now. 180.
- Six months of T can cost anything from 90 USD to 360 USD. If I want a year, that's anywhere from 180 to 720.
- Top surgery costs far more than I honestly believe I can manage with a site like this, but we'll leave that on the table as a stretch goal.
- GoFundMe takes 5% of all donations.
- The current goal of 1000 covers all of that, plus about a hundred to catch extra fees for things like blood work that will inevitably come up.
I realise I'm not a terribly persuasive person, but I hope you'll take the time to read this and donate even a dollar to help me live my life. Thank you.
I've been actively trying on my own for about six years, but every year something happens, or multiple things happen, and I've been living on 'maybe next year,' 'next year will be better.'
Well, that hasn't happened.
In the meantime, my various dreams--publishing written works, for example--are all on hold, and I've been battling with increasingly severe depression and suicidal thoughts. It's reached the point where I have been contemplating suicide instead of reaching 27 without transitioning--which is about the point when I might feasibly have a chance of affording it again.
I have younger friends who are determined that I give this a shot. So... here we are.
Here is the breakdown of costs:
- 280 for a name change. Georgia is unpleasantly expensive in this regard.
- 30 bucks a clinic visit at the low income clinic. Multiply by six for now. 180.
- Six months of T can cost anything from 90 USD to 360 USD. If I want a year, that's anywhere from 180 to 720.
- Top surgery costs far more than I honestly believe I can manage with a site like this, but we'll leave that on the table as a stretch goal.
- GoFundMe takes 5% of all donations.
- The current goal of 1000 covers all of that, plus about a hundred to catch extra fees for things like blood work that will inevitably come up.
I realise I'm not a terribly persuasive person, but I hope you'll take the time to read this and donate even a dollar to help me live my life. Thank you.
Organizer
Jacquelene Bell
Organizer
Milledgeville, GA