Gender Affirming Surgeries
Hello,
My name is Aurora. I am 29 years old and I transitioned from male to female in 2018. I love being transgender but I also fear for my safety. Many of my trans peers are brutalized for being themselves and I do everything in my power to advocate for them. Despite my strength and bravery being so visible, there are times when I’d like nothin more than to be less so. For instance, when I am walking alone at night, at a nightclub, or on a job interview, it already makes me vulnerability being Black and effeminate, but then to add being visibly trans makes things even tougher. I would like the ability to disclose my trans identity when I see fit and feel safe.
I am also seeking these procedures for internal factors as well. Sometimes my body makes me feel depressed. I love myself and yet I don’t always feel myself. I am emotionally struck whenever I look in the mirror and all I can see is the boy I was before my transition. That too takes its own toll.
Insurance is tricky, they do not always see the medical necessity of these procedures. Which is ironic, my visibility is the very thing that can put my health in danger.So hopefully with Sid through GFM I can make my inner me align with my outer me.
