Lucy needs help with costs for bottom surgery. She doesn't want her meat, but could use some help in getting rid of it!
Nationwide
So I started my medical transition on March 13th 2018. I'm in the process of being admitted to the High Cost Treatment Pool (national funding for bottom surgery) but the wait is unrealistic and de-moralising, so I want private surgeons to also be an option I can pursue.
I've been dealing with immense genital dysphoria since the age of 12, possibly before, but that's my most definite time period. This can manifest as discomfort in everyday life, immense self-loathing and deprecation, social anxiety, feeling a lack of self-determination (such as choice in clothing) and fantasies of self-harm, which, let's be real is pretty shocking and unsafe.
So I want to ask my friends, I want to ask my community, and I want to ask the world if and how they can help me achieve my goals. I would do this all myself if I could but it seems unrealistic, so I call out for mutual aid.
Costs are extensive, the surgery itself alone is ludicrously priced but I also have to factor in travel costs, passports, travel for a support person, accomodation for weeks while I recover, food, any other essentials, the list goes on...
This could hopefully provide me a quality of life that I have desired for a very very long time. It affords me an escape from the constraints that I impose on myself, and some of the constraints that are imposed on me externally. Basically, this shit will make my life way more awesome and I'm gonna be a much happier lil' woman!
Anything counts! Sharing with yr friends, $1-$2 that you can spare, checking in with me occasionally to see how things are going. Lobbying for increased health access for transgender people. You all have power, so, so much. I hope you use it 😇
Bottom surgery, travel costs, passports, travel for a support person, accomodation for weeks while I recover, food, any other essentials, the list goes on...
Any surplus will be donated to Gender Minorities Aotearoa, InsideOUT, or another queer org.
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