Peyton's Gender Affirming Surgeries

This is me. I am 33 years old, transgender and suffer from crippling dysphoria and body image related depression. I see a therapist, and multiple doctors. I do not have any health insurance and pay for my hormone medication completely out of pocket. I have sold my personal belongings, lifetime collectables, and precious possessions to acomplish what I have. I've spent over $3,000 on laser hair removal alone. Recently I sold a car that was very important to me, but the money still isn't enough to make the goals for my transition and gender affirming surgeries.I have always been overweight. I was an overweight child and never seemed to shake it. This was me weighing in just under 300 lbs, before I came out as transgender.


In 2013, I fought hard to change my diet and excercise. I changed my life, and my health. Getting my weight down lower than it's ever been in my adult life.



Unfortunately with my weightloss came extra skin in the form of a sagging band around my waist, my thighs and my arms. Something no excercise or diet will ever fix, and so I am left with a body I still do not feel confident about. I wear a body shaper on most days to hide the skin, and am never seen without a shirt or in a bikini top or bathing suit.

In January of 2015 I came out as transgender. For years I often toyed with the idea, and I guess I just got to a point that I couldn't ignore it anylonger. Being a man with sagging excess skin was hard enough, but to present as a woman with all the problems that come with being trans and additionally having this skin has been a nightmare of crippling depression. I have broad shoulders, big hands, big feet, and all around look like a man. I can do my best to put on makeup and present for a selfie, but when you meet me, you know that I was assigned male at birth.




I feel terrible resorting to this page, but I don't know where else to get the money. I have sold so many important things, and done so much to get as far as I have, but it just isn't enough. I have daily thoughts of depression, sadness, and suicide. I struggle with presenting in a way that doesn't match who I am inside. With working so hard to lose all the weight I have, only to still be ashamed for others to see my body.

I cannot express how grateful I am for your taking the time to read about my journey, and consider donating to help me through this difficult process. Any money raised through this fund will be used to further my transition, fund gender and body image affirming surgeries including body contouring for weight loss, facial feminizaton, breast augmentation, laser hair removal, and hormone medications.