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Gui tira os intrusos

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Os amigos, amigas e amigues tratam-me por Gui. O sexo que me foi atribuído à nascença foi o feminino, com base naquilo que os médicos viram entre as pernas. Não escolhi que fosse assim, aliás ninguém tem esse direito, ainda.
 
Sou uma pessoa Trans e isso quer dizer, no meu caso, que a minha identidade de género é masculina, não feminina, como o tal sexo.  
 
Quando a puberdade chegou e as maminhas se transformaram em mamonas, isso causou-me,e ainda causa, imenso desespero e desconforto, a antigamente chamada "disforia de género". Vivi cerca de 22 anos sem saber quem era e o que se passava comigo. Finalmente descobri quem sou e como me sinto realmente eu: 
 
Há 3 anos que gasto cerca de 50€ mensais em consultas de psicologia e 70€ anuais em hormonas para que agora possa, finalmente tirar as mamonas, os tais "intrusos". A minha felicidade e bem-estar dependem completamente dessa cirurgia.  Para esconder "os intrusos" uso um binder há cerca de 2 anos. Sem ele sinto-me nu pois as pessoas notam mais facilmente o meu peito e tratam-me como mulher. Com ele, estou cada vez mais doente: desde problemas respiratórios, a marcas na pele, dores musculares e nas costas... enfim. 
 
 
Mas nem tudo são espinhos. No caminho de descoberta e com a toma das hormonas comecei realmente a gostar mais de mim. Ouvir-me e sentir-me na minha essência é uma sensação única. 
 
Esperar pela cirurgia no público é adiar a minha vida mais um ano ou dois. No privado, a cirurgia varia entre os 2500 e os 3000€ e assim que esta angariação de fundos estiver concluída, vou só ali chorar um bocado ao telefone enquanto marco a cirurgia
 
Se fosses tu na minha pele, quantos anos aguentarias para poderes seres tu?  
 
Decidi expor publicamente a minha verdade e pedir-te que:
1. Partilhes esta angariação de fundos para finalmente eu fazer a Mastectomia. #gofundgui
2. Does um valor simbólico que possas neste momento. Se não puderes pagar por aqui aceito MBWAY ou Transferência Bancária.
3. Sigas todos os detalhes do processo de angariação em:
 
[email redacted]ttos
Twitter: @GuiDuarteSantos
Facebook: www.facebook.com/guisantooos6
 
Novo Mbway 931 858 417
Transferência Bancária 0007 0000 0038 1036 9532 3 - Guilherme Duarte Santos
 
Toda a ajuda é bem-vinda. Obrigado a todas, todos e todes.
Desejo que possam ser quem são.
#glfundgui


** English bellow **

My friends call me by my name, Gui. My sex assigned at birth was female based on what doctors saw between my legs. I did not chose to be that way, actually, nobody has that right anyway, yet! (to chose their assigned sex at birth). 
 
I'm a transgender person, which means, in my case, my gender identity is masculine and I identify as a man (male).

As puberty arrived and the bubbies started to grow, they did not stop, unfortunately. That caused me severe discomfort with myself and my body. As you can imagine, if you're a cisgender person, probably you wouldn't like to wake up with some "intruders" in your body. Well, maybe just for fun you would.  For one day or two you could actually enjoy it, just to try out how does it feel to be in the opposite body. 

I've been living with some intruders (female bubbies) for quite a few years, let's say  about 15. And I cannot wait to get ride of them.  
I have lived 22 years without knowing who I was. Finally, I find out i was transgender. 

3 years ago I started my psychotherapy sessions, 50€ each month (a little more in US dollars, a little less in UK pounds) and started my hormonal therapy, which is about 70€ a year. You may think this is so cheap, i get it. But come live in Portugal receiving 600€ (  705 US dollars and 514 UK pounds), pay your room for about 200€ and eat with at least 100€, go to work in public transportation with about 40€. 
Use some money (lets say 100€) to have some fun with friends and bare in mind that some emergencies may occur along the way. 

Waiting for this surgery in the public sector is the same as to wait one or two more years to have it done. COVID didn't help to accelerate hospitals procedures. 

Can i save around 160€ per month just to pay my surgery in the public sector? Hell yeah, and i'm doing it. But that will take me EIGHTEEN MORE LONG MONTHS until i can have surgery.  
How is that? Don't get me wrong, I know you can do your math, but let me save you some time: 
My top surgery costs 2980€.  2980€/160€ saved each month its about 18,6 months. There you go. 


To hide my intruders i have been using a Binder which already marked my skin severely and makes me suffer from  back pain and breathing (respiratory) problems.  (see photo below on Portuguese text)
Along my journey and with hormonal treatment I started to like myself a bit more. Listening to myself and feeling my true self has been amazing.  https://www.instagram.com/p/CSwcC7siCGb/?utm_medium=copy_link" style="letter-spacing:0.0085px;">You can ear voice differences in this video (although in Portuguese). 

 If you were in my shoes, how long could you wait? 

I've decided to come out publicly and ask you to:
1. Share my story
2. Donate a symbolic amount.  
3. Follow the process in my social media stories:
 
[email redacted]ttos
Twitter: @GuiDuarteSantos
Facebook: www.facebook.com/guisantooos6


if you do not have a credit card.
Bank Transfer PT50 0007 0000 0038 1036 9532 3 - Guilherme Duarte Santos SWIFT - CGDIPTPL

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Guilherme Santos
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