Help a Trans Woman Escape For Her Life

Hello everyone!

My girlfriend, an amazing woman, is currently living in Uzbekistan, where being herself always will put her in danger.

There is no legal protection in place for trans people and they are actively oppressed by society and the authorities. She faces danger outside of her home and unfortunately even in her own home.

She cannot access gender-affirming healthcare and is always at risk of being abused by police and family if she was outed. She also cannot change her legal documents, which poses a risk as her being with a man is illegal, leading up to 5 years in prison.

Every day, she worries that this time someone will find out or if she can even trust her own family not to report her. Her home doesn’t feel like a home. She has to hide herself everyday for her own survival. It pains me to hear that the future she wants and hopes to achieve one day is very close to never becoming a reality, not by her own decisions, but to people who will not accept her for who she is. Nothing hurts more than hearing someone you love tell you that they’re afraid of what can happen to them.

She has already begun taking HRT for months now and every day it becomes harder and harder to hide it.

What we're trying to raise enough funds for:

Leave Uzbekistan.

Reach a safe country where she can seek asylum.

Afford transportation, food, housing, and medical care.

Find proper health care that respects who she is and allows her to get proper care.

Allow her to push for her dreams of the future.

Save her life.

Everyday that passes, her life gets more in danger.

Your donation is very much appreciated and it will help save someone’s life.

Any donation is accepted and we thank you for your support. If you can’t donate anything, spreading the word is just as great.

Thank you!

- A partner that's trying to save someone he loves

A Message From The Amazing Woman

Hi! This fundraiser is for me!

I started HRT on December 3rd 2024. And I still remember that day. I got the pills, popped one and went about my day extremely happy. My family was asking me what I’m smiling about, but I couldn’t tell them. Things have changed a lot since then. Now I am on injectable monotherapy E and it’s been about 7 months. Since then, multiple people have told me “you look girlier” “are you a femboy?” “you should grow a beard or something”. All either poking light friendly fun at me or being uncomfortable with my femininity. Either way, thoughtless comments have been both insulting and affirming at the same time.

With every day I feel more like myself, but it seems like the world doesn’t share that feeling. My body changes and changes become all the more noticeable. I have multiple chronic conditions (hypertension and multiple autoimmune conditions), so I have to meet more doctors than most people on average. If you add up my ER visits and ambulance rides, it’d probably come up to a dozen. The problem here is, doctors notice these things first. My sanity has been questioned and I’ve been asked weird and out of pocket questions (“Are you stable emotionally?” “Do you pee yourself?”) as well as I have been touched inappropriately by the nurse staff more than once - one dude was hugging me weird, two others touched my chest. It is disheartening, scary and is a weight I’m struggling to carry. I cannot turn to the police, they will most likely turn on me. Trans people have faced lynchings, violence by the police and lack of defense since long before me in this country and it’s not getting better.

As I mentioned, I have multiple chronic conditions and it’s been extremely hard to take my GP to take me seriously. I was overmedicated for months. All this time I was suffering from weakness, fatigue, dizziness and orthostatic intolerance. Only after months of talks and me resorting to threats did my meds get adjusted and I got better. It is impossible to freely share about HRT with medical staff and their lack of knowledge of me using it or about it in general leads to low quality of healthcare and sometimes dangerous consequences (at the lowest my BP was dropping to 80/30).

I’ve known who I am ever since I remember myself, I always knew I was different and I was always trying to get away. When I was a kid I had dreams of being a president or scientist and other kid stuff, but now? All I dream about is being free. I want to pursue higher education, I want to be able to live my life as I am and I want to build a family with the person I love.

With all this in mind, I have been stealthing all this time. And as I mentioned, it’s becoming less possible every day. A few people already know, those who I deemed safe, but even that was extremely scary. The only person in my family who knows me for what I am is my mother and she’s doing everything she can to get me out, but even she can’t afford these things. The rest of my family wouldn’t understand, or worse - my father would 100% come to violence against me if he knew.

Me, my mom and boyfriend have all been working hard to try and get me away, but it seems like a mountain we cannot climb. My boyfriend alone has already sent me a sum of 1500 and he is continuing to support me. My mom is selling jewelry. I've been selling my gaming gear. And still, we’re only about 1/3 of the way.

So I’m asking you to help me. Out of desperation but also hope that I might get to live a life I always wanted.

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Getting a tourist visa is nigh impossible for people from Uzbekistan. As a result, we are going through an easier but more expensive route - a short-term college course (3 months).

Most of the everyday expenses are aimed to be covered by ourselves, but the cost of tuition makes it impossible for us (8,000 USD).

Costs:

Plane ticket: 1,000 USD

Initial move in and bond: 600-1,000 USD

Rent (3 months) 2,000 USD

Food and transport 700 USD

Healthcare and insurance 600 USD

Translations and documents 150 USD

Legal advisory consult 0-200 USD

Emergency buffer 500 USD

TUITION 8,000 USD

We plan to update and tell all of you exactly how things go!

You can contact me or if you want to contact her directly you can get her socials from me!

The fundraiser goes for tuition, but everything beyond this will go to reducing the financial pressure for her, and her loved ones, ensuring that she can not just survive, but live.

Thank you!