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Alice’s SRS(Bottom Surgery) Fund

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My name is Alice Chambers, and I’m raising money to fund a surgery that I am not currently able to afford due to my circumstances. This surgery, viewed by many Therapists and Doctors as vital, is declared a cosmetic surgery by almost all but the most expensive Healthcare providers.

That means all the costs fall to the patient. It’s an incredibly delicate, and complex surgery, so affording it is not easy. Hopefully in some way doing this will bring it closer, as it currently wouldn’t be able to be afforded in the next five years. Add to this that most surgeons have a 2-3 year waiting list due to the small amount of skilled surgeons who know the technique and have the skill to perform it.

A little bit about myself:
I first realised I was transgender at about 10/11 years old, and immediately became depressed and secretive. I had known I was different since age 5, and had lied about almost all the things I liked or wanted to do since then. It was a very different time, and I didn’t think telling anyone that I actually wanted dolls, princess dresses or other non-gender conforming things.

Since then it’s been a long road to self discovery with my coming out at age 19, starting hormone therapy. Roughly five months after arriving at A&M for University, I planned to tell my parents of my choice to transition, my struggles, who I really was as a person and even hopefully my mental illnesses.

It was Christmas season, the Fall Semester had ended and I planned to tell my parents until my mother got ill. I kept putting it off, hoping to tell her once she was well again, but it didn’t happen. My mother’s breast cancer had recurred and was in her liver and spinal cord. By the time we knew what it was, it was terminal.

My mother was a huge figure in my life, a role model, and someone I was hoping would guide me once I had finally confessed myself to her. She was the main bread winner of our family, kept our extended family in contact, held the house together, and even was incredibly well known in her communities.

Unfortunately the loss of her funds caused issues with my Financial Aid, couple together that with my undiagnosed mental illness, my transition still at the early stages and not knowing what major to choose, things soon fell apart. Financial Aid was unable to come up with anything to help, so being unable to pay for college, I could no longer attend.

I engaged in less than great habits, and even let my anxiety and depression devour me. After a short hospitalisation I was properly diagnosed with Depression and Anxiety. Now able to cope with these I was able to start getting my life back together.

I’m going to be going back to college next semester, I’ve chosen a career and even am ready to begin looking to my future hopefully. My road has been rough, but this surgery means the world to me. I won’t get my mother back, but I’ll get to wear bikini’s to the beach without worrying, I’ll be able to take Ballet Lessons like I’ve wanted to since I was 8, and I’ll finally feel comfortable in my own body!

Being able to feel comfortable in your own body is so vital, and it takes a great deal for the average person. Add in the horrible dysphoria of seeing a body you know is wrong, and just generally inconvenient. That’s why I started this GoFundMe, it’s hope, it’s knowing that one day I will reach this goal, and every little bit means so much. It makes my dreams a little bit closer. Thank you so very much.

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Alice Chambers
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Dale, TX

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