Support Rosemary's Journey to Gender Affirmation

Hello,

I am a 24 year old trans creator and also professional human being as well and this is me finally making a GoFundMe to complete my gender transition. Ever since I chose the name Rosemary three years ago and started living as my truth, I have been on this very difficult path of transition.

I'm sure everyone's seen an influx of these campaigns after the election shot doubts into our collective hope that our progress as a country would keep being made forward. With seeing what our President to be's promises and plans towards trans individuals and our rights:

https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-trump-transgender/

There is little doubt in my mind that with the more time I wait in getting these necessary procedures for my mental health, my life, my happiness, it will just get harder and harder. I have been trying to traverse the American Healthcare System for 2 and a half years after I came out to myself and the world. It has been a long expensive and difficult time, I have already sunk over 4 thousand dollars myself in pursuit of this goal personally while scraping by in life as well dealing with hospital bills as well. I am finally taking the step to reach out for financial assistance to speed this process up as much as I can as I know time is of the essence.

As of very recently, my insurance extended their coverage to cover FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery), so once I am able to pay the 5k deductible payment, I will be able to get it covered. However, they only offer coverage in the states and I am studying in Rome, Italy at the current moment so I will have to fly out to the states to get the surgery and stay out there while taking off classes and work to do so.

There is also a chance that Trump's presidency could make my insurance stop covering this service and I may have to go to a different country to get this done which could be a lot more. I am trying to come up with a reasonable number to cover what I need to cover what I need to complete my trip. Any above that I will put towards paying off past procedures or towards future ones, also laser as well.

A little about me:

I only started existing as Rosemary to the world on the day I turned 22, I wanted to start my existence on the world on the same day that I did at the start. I had taken so long to figure it out as I had been living on the streets of Chicago for most my adult life and when you're homeless, you tend to put things like gender identity on the back burner. My road to transition was a very lonely and isolating one, but I luckily have since then found such a strong online and in person community that has kept me sane and uplifted me to the point where I felt a future for myself was actually positive.

I don't have the same classic story as someone who always knew they wanted to be a girl since they were a baby, but looking back it was so obvious. I hated my body, my life, my everything, I felt like I wasn't 'man' enough and was always trying to cover that with masculinity when what I was covering was myself. One of the worst parts of all was that I never recognized the person I saw in the mirror. I still have trouble with that, I have an idea of what I look like in my head and it's never what happens when I see what I look like. Now I can get close with makeup and estrogen, but like transphobes love to point out, my bones get in the way. It also is what people use to clock me as transgender, which gets me put into very dangerous situations when I am presenting more feminine out in the world.

The times I do pass in public, as rare as they are, I achieve a level of calm that I forgot was possible when I started transitioning. People treat me as normal, just like I'm another person and not a walking political scandal. Hopefully with this fund I will be able to live my life as normal and comfortable as I have always dreamed. Thank you for hearing my story out and donating/sharing if you can.