Top surgery for a QTBPOC northerner
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*UPDATE* Thank you to everyone who has donated to my top surgery fund! I am overwhelmed and so grateful for all the energy and movement toward this. After reviewing my situation, I have increased my goal target. My journey hasn’t been perfect and through trial and (clearly) error I have chosen to stop using the service GenderGP who had been handling my medical process. They have shown a lack of clear communication with my own GP and myself.
They aren’t a viable service for me and I urge folx to look into them before signing up. This means my referral letter and consultations for gender services has had to be redirected to another service. I have contacted a consultant (who is a person of colour, hype!) who may be able to help me transfer and get a diagnosis and a referral letter, which is required for surgery.
This is going to cost more. I am sad that GenderGP f**ked me around and I hope this doesn’t affect my future in accessing services. Thank you all again for continuing to support me!
My name is Ingi, I was born and bred in the wonderful city of Leeds. I have worked with multiple organisations over the past 15 years doing outreach work and community based projects with young people, disadvantaged communities and queer rights advocates.
The purpose of this fundraiser is to pay for consultations, referrals, transportation, and therapists, with the bulk of the funding allocated to the surgery itself. I will provide updates and will try to explain as best I can where the funds will be spent.
Wishing for change is no longer an option. I really hope this works and that I can be free of these feelings, that I can be accepted and safe in my community and within myself.
Being Black and trans and non-binary has taken its toll on my ability to navigate comfortably and counteract effectively the microagressive (and regularly aggressive) experiences I have faced. Though my own understanding of my gender has always been stable, my ability to vocalise and the language to say it has taken time to develop, so, I use they/them pronouns because they don’t make me feel weird. Socially, politically and medically I am affected by processes that I feel are out of my control, but they are not!
I feel like top surgery would give me a new freedom to express myself and feel sure about who I want to be and give me more confidence to follow the pursuits I want in life, a chance to live comfortably in my body without pain or worry always being the state of my mind.
***Top surgery - the medical intervention some trans masculine people endure to relieve dysphoria and uncomfortable thoughts and feeling about their chest and shape of their chest. The result of top surgery is meant to flatten and contour the chest into a more masculine appearance.***
They aren’t a viable service for me and I urge folx to look into them before signing up. This means my referral letter and consultations for gender services has had to be redirected to another service. I have contacted a consultant (who is a person of colour, hype!) who may be able to help me transfer and get a diagnosis and a referral letter, which is required for surgery.
This is going to cost more. I am sad that GenderGP f**ked me around and I hope this doesn’t affect my future in accessing services. Thank you all again for continuing to support me!
My name is Ingi, I was born and bred in the wonderful city of Leeds. I have worked with multiple organisations over the past 15 years doing outreach work and community based projects with young people, disadvantaged communities and queer rights advocates.
The purpose of this fundraiser is to pay for consultations, referrals, transportation, and therapists, with the bulk of the funding allocated to the surgery itself. I will provide updates and will try to explain as best I can where the funds will be spent.
Wishing for change is no longer an option. I really hope this works and that I can be free of these feelings, that I can be accepted and safe in my community and within myself.
Being Black and trans and non-binary has taken its toll on my ability to navigate comfortably and counteract effectively the microagressive (and regularly aggressive) experiences I have faced. Though my own understanding of my gender has always been stable, my ability to vocalise and the language to say it has taken time to develop, so, I use they/them pronouns because they don’t make me feel weird. Socially, politically and medically I am affected by processes that I feel are out of my control, but they are not!
I feel like top surgery would give me a new freedom to express myself and feel sure about who I want to be and give me more confidence to follow the pursuits I want in life, a chance to live comfortably in my body without pain or worry always being the state of my mind.
***Top surgery - the medical intervention some trans masculine people endure to relieve dysphoria and uncomfortable thoughts and feeling about their chest and shape of their chest. The result of top surgery is meant to flatten and contour the chest into a more masculine appearance.***
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