Help Avery Get Top Surgery!
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My names Avery, and I’m a 20 year old trans masculine individual. I’m an artist, I love music and concerts, and horrible tacky clothing. I’m looking for help covering the cost of my double-incision top surgery scheduled in January of 2021.
I started struggling with my gender when I was 15, and spent all of high school growing increasingly more uncomfortable with myself, my body, and how others viewed me. I cycled through a few labels for my gender before settling with nonbinary. My dysphoria started to ramp up at 16, which is when I cut my hair short and started wearing a chest binder. I started HRT in may of 2018, which I never expected to do, and taking testosterone has helped me immensely. The past two years I have felt a comfort and happiness with myself I can’t remember ever experiencing before, finding peace in the label trans masculine.
My chest, then and now, is the only part of my body that causes extreme anxiety and dysphoria for me, which has led to binding nearly every day (which is very unsafe, please follow the rules for wearing your binder). I decided that I wanted top surgery when I was in high school, but at that point it was solely for my mental health. After 5 years of nearly nonstop binding, this is a decision I’m also making for my physical health. My chest hurts nearly every day and I’m able to do less and less physically demanding activities— this summer I’ve found I can barely walk a block in the heat while binding before getting nauseous and unable to breathe.
This surgery will be life changing for me, both mentally/emotionally and physically. I am lucky that I have wonderful and supportive parents, who graciously gave me the funds to cover the downpayment this last Christmas, but it is up to me to pay for the procedure. As a student, and someone who struggles with both anxiety and depression, its very hard for me to balance even a part time job and still take care of myself. I make money through art commissions, but those are few and far-between. By myself, it will take me years to be able to pay for this surgery, which puts me at risk of seriously damaging my ribs or lungs by continuing to bind.
I’m asking for your help. Any amount gets me closer to a future where I can (quite literally) get this weight off my chest— no longer have debilitating anxiety and dysphoria, or be in pain while breathing. I need to pay $7,900 by December 22nd, 2020 to be able to get my surgery on January 6th, 2021.
I started struggling with my gender when I was 15, and spent all of high school growing increasingly more uncomfortable with myself, my body, and how others viewed me. I cycled through a few labels for my gender before settling with nonbinary. My dysphoria started to ramp up at 16, which is when I cut my hair short and started wearing a chest binder. I started HRT in may of 2018, which I never expected to do, and taking testosterone has helped me immensely. The past two years I have felt a comfort and happiness with myself I can’t remember ever experiencing before, finding peace in the label trans masculine.
My chest, then and now, is the only part of my body that causes extreme anxiety and dysphoria for me, which has led to binding nearly every day (which is very unsafe, please follow the rules for wearing your binder). I decided that I wanted top surgery when I was in high school, but at that point it was solely for my mental health. After 5 years of nearly nonstop binding, this is a decision I’m also making for my physical health. My chest hurts nearly every day and I’m able to do less and less physically demanding activities— this summer I’ve found I can barely walk a block in the heat while binding before getting nauseous and unable to breathe.
This surgery will be life changing for me, both mentally/emotionally and physically. I am lucky that I have wonderful and supportive parents, who graciously gave me the funds to cover the downpayment this last Christmas, but it is up to me to pay for the procedure. As a student, and someone who struggles with both anxiety and depression, its very hard for me to balance even a part time job and still take care of myself. I make money through art commissions, but those are few and far-between. By myself, it will take me years to be able to pay for this surgery, which puts me at risk of seriously damaging my ribs or lungs by continuing to bind.
I’m asking for your help. Any amount gets me closer to a future where I can (quite literally) get this weight off my chest— no longer have debilitating anxiety and dysphoria, or be in pain while breathing. I need to pay $7,900 by December 22nd, 2020 to be able to get my surgery on January 6th, 2021.
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Avery Foil
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Charlotte, NC