Hello everyone! I'm Jae.

I was born in 1998, and very early on in my life, I realized that I was incredibly uncomfortable in my own body. I started going through puberty at a very early age, and from the very second that I started developing my chest, I knew I despised it, and wanted them gone. Even before I understood anything about gender identity, I've felt wrong in my body.

For a lot of my teenage years, I identified as FTM Transgender, but during my early adulthood, I discovered that I lean more towards a Gender Nonconforming spectrum. There's a clinical treatment center for transgender people in Denmark, but unfortunately the treatment process is both long and tiring, and even more so for people who don't conform completely to one of the binary genders. This means that it could take YEARS for me to get the care and treatment I need, with constant stressful battles to defend my own identity. I desperately wanted to get rid of my chest as fast as humanely possible the second I turned 18, and was actually a part of the Transgender Treatment Center for a while. But due to several personal complications with mental health struggles, that only got worse for a while, as well as economic instability, I was unable to find the money or means to get it done. Now I'm 26, and I've grown increasingly more and more dysphoric of my chest. During this already hard and stressful time of my life, I was wrongfully medicated which unfortunately added a side effect of massive weight gain. Since getting out of that entire mess, I've lost 20 kg, and I'm continuing to lose weight.

The weight loss has brought a lot of joy and happiness through mobility into my life, but it unfortunately also put my mental focus back on the uncomfortability of my chest - a pain I had numbed myself to, through general dysphoria of my entire body during my obesity. I now find it hard to get through my every day life without feeling intense dysphoria, sometimes to the point of feeling panic or having general breakdowns. I'm usually terrible at directly asking others for help, but I've been made aware that sometimes, in situations like mine, it might be necessary. I'd never for a second expect anyone to help me out, but I'd like to formally thank everyone who is able and willing to do so ahead of time.

This surgery is something I've known I've wanted for practically all of my life (at least all the time that I've had a chest). It's something that's going to improve my quality of life a thousand times over. If you're unable to donate, I absolutely understand, economy can be rough - but if you could perhaps share this around or talk about it, that would also mean the world to me.

Thank you for taking your time to read this.

And if you've shared or donated, thank you for helping me get one step closer to living a life as authentically myself.

All funds donated will be used directly on the surgery itself. Any costs relating to transport, aftercare, hospital care, etc., I will cover myself.