Angelique's Kitty Fund
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I am really very excited to share with you this news, I met with an Healthcare Advisor from Howard Brown Health Center and we contacted my insurance agency they will consider me to have GRS ( Gender Reassignment Surgery ) and all I will be responsible for only $6000.
So now the reality is the operaton may happen sooner than I imagined. I am so excited, I have my consultation with a local surgeon set for April 5th at that time I'll bring him my letters from my doctors stating I am ready for the operaton, ask him questions and such.
In the meantime, I will continue fundraising even though I met my goal of $6000, which goes for the operation alone, when I set this up I really didn't think too far ahead. Ugh of course there will be other cost, like laser hair removal, post Surgery medical needs and supplies. And of course I'll be off work for at least a Month... So I am leaving my campaign up and active.
2017 may be the best year of my life, and I owe it all to every single person who's made a donation, who's been there for me, who's cared about me enough to make a difference in my life.
Thank you so very much from my heart
xoxo Angelique
Angelique's Kitty Fund
I am asking for your help in raising money for my GRS ( Gender Reassignment Surgery ).
I was born an only child in Chicago, IL in 1970. I knew ever sense I was able to speak that I was a girl, however I did not know why I didn't have girl parts . I had an extremely abusive childhood in and out of the home , my mother would lunge for my throat choke and stomp me to the ground every time I said I was a girl she would say "no you're just a little faggot" she would go on to say "if I knew I was going to have a kid like you, I wouldn't never had you" . The abuse went on for years until one day she was stomping me to the ground as her foot, would go down on my neck over and over she suddenly stopped and said "what a my doing to my kid ? ". She later and told me she had flashbacks of what her father did to her. I was extremely terrified of her for many years.
Much later in life at the age of 27(1997), my parents divorced and my mother came to live with me for about two years. She never worked much when I was a kid and never drove but after divorce she had to do something, she began working at Walgreens and I taught her how to drive . Oh and by this time I am already begun performing as "Angelique Munro"( I began performing in 1995 ) and was making a name for myself becoming known as one of Chicago's top female impersonators . So my mother and I had to have a heart to heart talk, I told her if we're going to live together you need to respect me coming and going out of the house as Angelique ! Those next couple years we spent together we had many nights sitting on the couch talking and crying about the past. Wow she open my eyes to so much, you see I didn't understand all the abuse that she and her sisters had encountered as children, being molested and raped by their father. Honestly the time we spent together we finally became friends, that time together brought us very close and I begin to truly love her . She got married and I moved out and she would become one of my biggest supporters, she came to every single venue I worked at and ha ha ha yes when she would walk in the door ...,everyone would say " Mom is here". They loved her because they did not get the support from their families . You see the community embraced her because they only saw her as the supportive mother they did not know all of the things that I encountered growing up .
I never understood or knew there was a name for how I was feeling until one day I came home from school and this TV talkshow called Donahue was on and they were talking about "Transgender-people born in the wrong body". Oh my god my eyes were opened. I finally realized that's who I am ! Wow my brain is female and I was born in a males body . I wasn't a faggot as I've been told my entire life growing up, not only by my mother but by my cousins, aunts and uncles oh and classmates it seems everyone around me loved that ignorant word .
Another Donahue episode was on one day after school he was talking about incest and child molestation and oh my god here we go again, I can also add this label to me .
I was molested then later raped by two of my uncles one on my mother side one on my father side from about the age of 5 until about 13. I suffer from major depression and at the age of 17, I attempted suicide just didn't want to be born in the wrong body honestly did not understand why I was put on this earth to be abuse so much . It's amazing that after you see a program like that you realize all that abuse was not "normal family time".
Well that's just a little insight on my childhood I guess you're wondering why did I chose to be a female impersonator and not transition along time ago ? And that answer is you have to remember I was extremely terrified of my mother and one Halloween my best friend (at the time )and my boyfriend (at the time ) all of us dressed up as women. I was excited but yet fearful because I knew I would love that girl who was looking back at me in the mirror . Becoming a female impersonator in drag shows was my outlet to be excepted as a woman.
And I did not start transitioning until after my mother died from lung and brain cancer in 2006( I was 35 ). I remember one night at the hospital, I was in her room this was right before she unable to speak. She reached over to me in the chair and she said " I think I'm being punished for the way I treat you" and there was a long pause as a tear fell down my cheek I looked at her and I said I forgive you Mama". We just sat in silence for the night and held hands .
So this brings me back to the reason why I'm asking you all for help, October 3, 2013 I drove myself to the emergency room I was in horrible pain my stomach ( I weighed almost 260 pounds stomach just kept getting bigger and bigger) and they ran a few test then the doctor came in to tell me, I had to have emergency surgery or I will die then a matter of hours . You see the CAT scan showed my intestines and colon were all twisted banned and yes I was just filling up with all poison . I had absolutely no time to think. I didn't know what to do, I called my aunt Pat and I said you have to come get my keys and if I die just throw everything away out of my apartment but please take care of my dog Cleo.
Well obviously I survived the surgery and while I was in the hospital recovering, I had plenty of time to think and made a bucket list!
1. I deserve a decent apartment - so I moved to a nice apartment the following year .
2. I deserve a reliable car - which I got this year .
3. I really want to have gender reassignment surgery- There are so many great people that have came up to me whether be in person or on Facebook and said that they support my decision and I should really do a fundraiser so here I am.
For me it is so not easy for me to ask anyone for help, especially for money. Thank you for taking the time to read my story and honestly any dollar amount would be greatly appreciated .
Much love to you, God Bless all of us
xoxo
Angelique
So now the reality is the operaton may happen sooner than I imagined. I am so excited, I have my consultation with a local surgeon set for April 5th at that time I'll bring him my letters from my doctors stating I am ready for the operaton, ask him questions and such.
In the meantime, I will continue fundraising even though I met my goal of $6000, which goes for the operation alone, when I set this up I really didn't think too far ahead. Ugh of course there will be other cost, like laser hair removal, post Surgery medical needs and supplies. And of course I'll be off work for at least a Month... So I am leaving my campaign up and active.
2017 may be the best year of my life, and I owe it all to every single person who's made a donation, who's been there for me, who's cared about me enough to make a difference in my life.
Thank you so very much from my heart
xoxo Angelique
Angelique's Kitty Fund
I am asking for your help in raising money for my GRS ( Gender Reassignment Surgery ).
I was born an only child in Chicago, IL in 1970. I knew ever sense I was able to speak that I was a girl, however I did not know why I didn't have girl parts . I had an extremely abusive childhood in and out of the home , my mother would lunge for my throat choke and stomp me to the ground every time I said I was a girl she would say "no you're just a little faggot" she would go on to say "if I knew I was going to have a kid like you, I wouldn't never had you" . The abuse went on for years until one day she was stomping me to the ground as her foot, would go down on my neck over and over she suddenly stopped and said "what a my doing to my kid ? ". She later and told me she had flashbacks of what her father did to her. I was extremely terrified of her for many years.
Much later in life at the age of 27(1997), my parents divorced and my mother came to live with me for about two years. She never worked much when I was a kid and never drove but after divorce she had to do something, she began working at Walgreens and I taught her how to drive . Oh and by this time I am already begun performing as "Angelique Munro"( I began performing in 1995 ) and was making a name for myself becoming known as one of Chicago's top female impersonators . So my mother and I had to have a heart to heart talk, I told her if we're going to live together you need to respect me coming and going out of the house as Angelique ! Those next couple years we spent together we had many nights sitting on the couch talking and crying about the past. Wow she open my eyes to so much, you see I didn't understand all the abuse that she and her sisters had encountered as children, being molested and raped by their father. Honestly the time we spent together we finally became friends, that time together brought us very close and I begin to truly love her . She got married and I moved out and she would become one of my biggest supporters, she came to every single venue I worked at and ha ha ha yes when she would walk in the door ...,everyone would say " Mom is here". They loved her because they did not get the support from their families . You see the community embraced her because they only saw her as the supportive mother they did not know all of the things that I encountered growing up .
I never understood or knew there was a name for how I was feeling until one day I came home from school and this TV talkshow called Donahue was on and they were talking about "Transgender-people born in the wrong body". Oh my god my eyes were opened. I finally realized that's who I am ! Wow my brain is female and I was born in a males body . I wasn't a faggot as I've been told my entire life growing up, not only by my mother but by my cousins, aunts and uncles oh and classmates it seems everyone around me loved that ignorant word .
Another Donahue episode was on one day after school he was talking about incest and child molestation and oh my god here we go again, I can also add this label to me .
I was molested then later raped by two of my uncles one on my mother side one on my father side from about the age of 5 until about 13. I suffer from major depression and at the age of 17, I attempted suicide just didn't want to be born in the wrong body honestly did not understand why I was put on this earth to be abuse so much . It's amazing that after you see a program like that you realize all that abuse was not "normal family time".
Well that's just a little insight on my childhood I guess you're wondering why did I chose to be a female impersonator and not transition along time ago ? And that answer is you have to remember I was extremely terrified of my mother and one Halloween my best friend (at the time )and my boyfriend (at the time ) all of us dressed up as women. I was excited but yet fearful because I knew I would love that girl who was looking back at me in the mirror . Becoming a female impersonator in drag shows was my outlet to be excepted as a woman.
And I did not start transitioning until after my mother died from lung and brain cancer in 2006( I was 35 ). I remember one night at the hospital, I was in her room this was right before she unable to speak. She reached over to me in the chair and she said " I think I'm being punished for the way I treat you" and there was a long pause as a tear fell down my cheek I looked at her and I said I forgive you Mama". We just sat in silence for the night and held hands .
So this brings me back to the reason why I'm asking you all for help, October 3, 2013 I drove myself to the emergency room I was in horrible pain my stomach ( I weighed almost 260 pounds stomach just kept getting bigger and bigger) and they ran a few test then the doctor came in to tell me, I had to have emergency surgery or I will die then a matter of hours . You see the CAT scan showed my intestines and colon were all twisted banned and yes I was just filling up with all poison . I had absolutely no time to think. I didn't know what to do, I called my aunt Pat and I said you have to come get my keys and if I die just throw everything away out of my apartment but please take care of my dog Cleo.
Well obviously I survived the surgery and while I was in the hospital recovering, I had plenty of time to think and made a bucket list!
1. I deserve a decent apartment - so I moved to a nice apartment the following year .
2. I deserve a reliable car - which I got this year .
3. I really want to have gender reassignment surgery- There are so many great people that have came up to me whether be in person or on Facebook and said that they support my decision and I should really do a fundraiser so here I am.
For me it is so not easy for me to ask anyone for help, especially for money. Thank you for taking the time to read my story and honestly any dollar amount would be greatly appreciated .
Much love to you, God Bless all of us
xoxo
Angelique
Organizer
Angelique Munro
Organizer
Chicago, IL