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Help Sammy Rose Transition

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Hello! My name is Sammy Rose, and I’m a transgender woman raising money to help complete my medical transition. Specifically, I am looking for funds to pursue Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS).
 
 
I had always felt that something was different about me from early on in my life, but having been raised and homeschooled by a Catholic family I never found words for what felt wrong until much later. Even once I did finally seek help after a long streak of alcoholism and planned suicides, it took me even more years to come to terms with myself: that I’m transgender, I’m a woman, and that I have to transition. People who know me well are probably most familiar with a period of my life in which I buried my confusion, pain, and self-hatred in a lot of cycling.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For the first part of my transition I had a job with insurance that would cover transition-related care, but had to leave it in May of 2021 because I couldn’t handle the physical labor due to the effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). While I now have a different full-time job with health insurance, my policy will not cover transition-related care, and I can’t get access to a policy that will. I do not make enough to pay for surgeries out of pocket, and I have too much debt from my (very misguided due to dysphoria/depression) college years to save for, or finance my surgery and pay over time.
 
 
Asking for help isn’t how I operate, but SRS is a medical necessity for me that I’m unable to access. I’m stuck and my timeline for affording surgery is at an unknown scale. Gender dysphoria is relentless; it doesn’t care how much money you have or where you are in life. This will probably sound dramatic to many people, but I have been in crisis from dysphoria for years and cannot put these surgeries off. For some people dysphoria is severe enough to be debilitating across all areas of life; for me, I have struggled to focus with any work since late in my college career and barely finished any of my degrees.
 
 
I have done very well on HRT and it has alleviated a lot of my dysphoria. Between HRT and the things I can control, I can present and function as female, which has been lifesaving for me. However, HRT cannot solve the fundamental incompatibility between who I am and the body I was born into; I need surgery.
 
 
I need help in order to have a life worth living, in which I can exist in my own skin well enough to improve other areas of my life and re-engage in the things I used to love. While I hope I’ve been a positive influence on others to the extent this cry for help works, this fundraiser and my transition aren’t about inspiring others, telling my story, “living my truth” or “being my true self.” I just want to survive.
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Sammy Rose Dobrozsi
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Carthage, IL

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