MxMax's Top Surgery Fund
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My name is Max and I am currently raising money to cover the partial cost of my top surgery booked for June 2018. I have to settle the bill mid-May.
I'm a transmasculine queer guy and single parent in my late 30s. Gender identity is something I have struggled with for many years. But in an age before the internet and readily available resources, I dismissed the massive amounts of dysphoria I'd suffered since around the age of 8 as other things. It has only been since the birth of my child a couple of years ago that I finally began to address my gender identity. I socially transitioned in April 2017 and have been on hormone therapy since Sept 2017. This has made a massive difference in my life already. The only thing really causing me continuing and often debilitating discomfort and distress is chest dysphoria.
I have been on the NHS waiting list for a Gender Identity Clinic for 18 months and have not yet had my first appointment with them. So I made the decision to start my transition privately. So far the costs have been relatively low. But surgery is far beyond my finances. I have the incredible fortune of having an amazingly supportive family who are helping me cover some of the cost of my surgery. So I am currently trying to raise the other half.
The money I'm raising here will be spent on my top surgery appointment in early June with Mr Miles Berry. The surgery is £6500 in total, the rest of which will be funded by my family. Any money made over the goal will go towards a hotel - as I will be travelling into London for the surgery, I need to stay in the area a couple of days around the surgery.
If any of you for any reason have experienced any level of dysphoria - be it related to gender or just an aspect of yourself that you struggle with - you no doubt know how truly horrible it can be to live with. Having gone 3 decades with this and never been able to really address it, I am now desperate to do so now that the solution is in sight.
To some of you I may be a stranger. To others you may know me from my performance days, I know some of you know me from my fiction writing. We may be friends, family or colleagues. Either way, I appreciate you all taking the time to read this and consider donating. I have never ending love for those of you who decide to donate.
Please feel free to share my fundraiser with anyone you think might like to help!
I'm a transmasculine queer guy and single parent in my late 30s. Gender identity is something I have struggled with for many years. But in an age before the internet and readily available resources, I dismissed the massive amounts of dysphoria I'd suffered since around the age of 8 as other things. It has only been since the birth of my child a couple of years ago that I finally began to address my gender identity. I socially transitioned in April 2017 and have been on hormone therapy since Sept 2017. This has made a massive difference in my life already. The only thing really causing me continuing and often debilitating discomfort and distress is chest dysphoria.
I have been on the NHS waiting list for a Gender Identity Clinic for 18 months and have not yet had my first appointment with them. So I made the decision to start my transition privately. So far the costs have been relatively low. But surgery is far beyond my finances. I have the incredible fortune of having an amazingly supportive family who are helping me cover some of the cost of my surgery. So I am currently trying to raise the other half.
The money I'm raising here will be spent on my top surgery appointment in early June with Mr Miles Berry. The surgery is £6500 in total, the rest of which will be funded by my family. Any money made over the goal will go towards a hotel - as I will be travelling into London for the surgery, I need to stay in the area a couple of days around the surgery.
If any of you for any reason have experienced any level of dysphoria - be it related to gender or just an aspect of yourself that you struggle with - you no doubt know how truly horrible it can be to live with. Having gone 3 decades with this and never been able to really address it, I am now desperate to do so now that the solution is in sight.
To some of you I may be a stranger. To others you may know me from my performance days, I know some of you know me from my fiction writing. We may be friends, family or colleagues. Either way, I appreciate you all taking the time to read this and consider donating. I have never ending love for those of you who decide to donate.
Please feel free to share my fundraiser with anyone you think might like to help!
Organizer
Max Turner
Organizer
England
