Please help me to access what I always needed

My name is Kane and my journey has been a halting and perilous one. The majority of people haven't experienced what it's like to have something so deeply wrong with their body that it penetrates their identity, and everything they are. It's so distressing and draining, and yet never visible to see. A dysphoria that's weighed inside me for as long as I've had this body. It's been longer than a decade tortured by this weight. A dysphoria that for me has always been dismissed, misunderstood, and received disgust in response in my life.

No heavier does this weight drag me down than the reason I'm making this page. It's never been tolerable. It's constant.

This is the same I felt about my voice, the shape of my body, and every basic trait a body has—until I started HRT a few months ago. But top surgery is a vastly more expensive medicine in a country that won't help me with this, and even looks down on me for this.

That's why I'm asking for your help. Your aid is going towards the *vast majority* of the cost of my top surgery, because I'm extremely fortunate to be able to afford pre-op and post-op supplies costs (a compression vest, travel costs, the hospital stay, and a few other needs).

It won't matter to me how much I'm scared of hospitals, the intense recovery over 1.5 months, sacrificing my academic life, or the reactions from my family. I need this to live inside my body. So it'll be impossible for you to really truly grasp how grateful I'd be if you did anything to help me. You'd be changing my life no matter how "little" you do.

Thank you.

Kane.