Luca’s Top Surgery
Donation protected
Imagine being a boy trapped in girl's body and not being seen for who you are. Imagine having to put a price on feeling comfortable in your own skin. Feeling like your body doesn't belong to you. Dysphoria is invisible, people don't see it, they don't understand why you can't just live your life.
This crowdfunder is to help me raise is to help me raise the rest of the funds needed for my top surgery, which in total is £8500. This top surgery, otherwise known as a double mastectomy, will allow me to be seen as the person I have always been inside.
Since taking Testosterone, in order to achieve a more masculine body, I started to develop facial hair, muscles and a lower voice. Every change I have experienced with testosterone has given me outstanding happiness. This is something I have wanted and been waiting for all my life.
Living within this body, with breasts, has impacted my mental health and has proved detrimental in almost all aspects of my life, whether it's work, relationships or family. I lack the resources to be seen for who I truly am, to be seen as the boy I am inside, the boy I want to show and share with the world.
WHO I AM
I am Luca, as of 8 months ago. Before that I went by the name of Tatiana. I am transgender.
I have always known I was a boy. Since I was 4 years old, this desire persisted no matter how much I tried to erase it as I just wanted to be "normal". Last year the pain of not being a boy, not living authentically and living as a girl was so strong that I confessed how I felt, I confessed who I was to my friends and family. I told them that I have always felt like a boy, since I can remember. I told them of the anguish I live in everyday, in a body that feels foreign to me. I was so scared of all the implications of everyone knowing I was transgender, so scared of all the medical procedures around transitioning. But, now I know that I didn't need to be scared, because it turned out to be the most liberating and empowering decision I had ever made.
HOW CAN YOU HELP
This surgery means the world to me. It would transform my mental health and wellbeing, allowing me to be the truest and most comfortable version of myself.
I can’t wait! In order to live happily and in harmony with my body, I have to go through many surgical procedures and will depend on the health system for the rest of my life. I have accepted that and feel very fortunate to have access to it. So far, I have managed to fund all treatments and procedures myself but it’s a difficult and expensive process. So now, I reach out to you for your support and ask for any donations, however big or small to contribute to the cost of my top surgery in February 2019. This is the final push towards my much longed freedom and I will be forever grateful to you.
Please share and support if you can. By showing your support, you will show your support to trans and GNC people everywhere. #Transallies
This crowdfunder is to help me raise is to help me raise the rest of the funds needed for my top surgery, which in total is £8500. This top surgery, otherwise known as a double mastectomy, will allow me to be seen as the person I have always been inside.
Since taking Testosterone, in order to achieve a more masculine body, I started to develop facial hair, muscles and a lower voice. Every change I have experienced with testosterone has given me outstanding happiness. This is something I have wanted and been waiting for all my life.
Living within this body, with breasts, has impacted my mental health and has proved detrimental in almost all aspects of my life, whether it's work, relationships or family. I lack the resources to be seen for who I truly am, to be seen as the boy I am inside, the boy I want to show and share with the world.
WHO I AM
I am Luca, as of 8 months ago. Before that I went by the name of Tatiana. I am transgender.
I have always known I was a boy. Since I was 4 years old, this desire persisted no matter how much I tried to erase it as I just wanted to be "normal". Last year the pain of not being a boy, not living authentically and living as a girl was so strong that I confessed how I felt, I confessed who I was to my friends and family. I told them that I have always felt like a boy, since I can remember. I told them of the anguish I live in everyday, in a body that feels foreign to me. I was so scared of all the implications of everyone knowing I was transgender, so scared of all the medical procedures around transitioning. But, now I know that I didn't need to be scared, because it turned out to be the most liberating and empowering decision I had ever made.
HOW CAN YOU HELP
This surgery means the world to me. It would transform my mental health and wellbeing, allowing me to be the truest and most comfortable version of myself.
I can’t wait! In order to live happily and in harmony with my body, I have to go through many surgical procedures and will depend on the health system for the rest of my life. I have accepted that and feel very fortunate to have access to it. So far, I have managed to fund all treatments and procedures myself but it’s a difficult and expensive process. So now, I reach out to you for your support and ask for any donations, however big or small to contribute to the cost of my top surgery in February 2019. This is the final push towards my much longed freedom and I will be forever grateful to you.
Please share and support if you can. By showing your support, you will show your support to trans and GNC people everywhere. #Transallies
Organizer
Luca Jimenez de Laiglesia
Organizer
England