Aly’s Top Surgery Fund

After two years of going through all the appointments and waitlists, I finally got a surgery date set for April 2025! I’m saving up as much as I can and also requesting help to cover costs related to surgery, recovery, and time off work. To friends, family, and generous strangers donating to this fund, thank you very much!! Your support means the world to me <3

To those who have known me a long time and may feel out of the loop -

I’m making this decision because for as long as I can remember I have felt like I wasn’t a girl/woman, and like my body belonged to someone else who I had to figure out how to be. I knew that getting dressed for the day or catching my reflection was enough to stir up panic, but I didn’t understand why I felt that way until I began to learn more about transness and the nuances of queer gender expression as an adult. The first time a friend lent me their binder I burst into tears trying it on under a dress and instantly knew that this was a pivotal moment in my life. I had been fascinated and moved by general gender non-conformity in any form and trans identities for as long as I’d been aware of them, but never felt comfortable exploring much how I presented or thought of myself (outside of being a little tomboy, which was more or less accepted). It took me a while to really consider my gender identity and what changes might feel affirming, and I decided I definitively do not feel like or want to look like a man, but I do want this particular change. I know with absolute certainty that I do not and have not ever wanted my chest as-is and I am VERY excited to feel more at home in my body after surgery.

As for what to call me, call me Aly, or Alyssa, and use whatever pronouns you want because they’re all good with me - just don’t call me f*g, d*ke, or tr*nny unless you are one yourself :)

Any unused funds will be redistributed to other gender affirming surgery fundraisers and mutual aid.