Intersex Correction Surgery and Security for Gale

Hi there!! My name is Abigale Azazel, and I'm an intersex person.

What is intersex? It's a condition some people are born with in which they have mixed male and female sex characteristics, much like the classic stereotype of the Greek hermaphrodite. Like many intersex people, despite being a healthy baby, I was seen as a freak, and had my genitals operated on as a child to "make me female" without my consent or even my mother's own knowledge. This horrifying procedure, along with it's lack of consent, is sadly perfectly legal in the United States. 

My surgery wasn't done well either, despite it all.

I have grown up with gender confusion in my teens, sexual difficulties with partners, and constant pain and infections in my half-formed internal sex organs. Despite being raised female, I was assigned male at birth then had that erased---I'm lucky enough to never have had to socially transition, but physically transitioning has been long and painful. I'm comfortable as being read as feminine, but besides my outward genitals, the rest of my body has been a struggle to transition slowly toward the nonbinary feminine side of things--getting breasts, laser facial hair removal, etc.

I suffer greatly from bottom dysphoria due to the botched surgery, and my one functioning ovary is often in such pain that I can't work.

My hope is that one day, intersex children will not be operated on without individual and parental knowledge; that intersex people will be able to grow up and choose to transition freely, or remain exactly as they are. Until that day comes, intersex people like me need to pick up the pieces of what's done to us. It's difficult, and I cannot do this alone.

That's where you come in! Donations will help pay for the surgery itself--the reconstruction of my genitalia as well as the removal of my problem ovary. Money will also go toward transportation, recovery, and helping to survive while I'm out of work in order to take as much time as I need to heal.

Every dollar, every share, counts. Please help me fix my body so I can live as my authentic self and move past the trauma that was inflicted on me as a child. Thank you so much for reading. 

Love, 
Gale