Ellie's Facial Feminisation Surgery Fund

Who the hell are you?

Thanks for asking! My name's Ellie, or Eleanor, and I'm a 27 year old trans woman. Beyond those basics, I'm also a musician, a huge tech nerd, and a proud cat mother. This is me:

"Are you getting The Surgery?" 

Well, no, but actually yes! Hopefully yes. Also, not that surgery. Yet.

Long story short, I need to raise funds for Facial Feminisation surgery, and frankly I don't see myself being able to hit the astronomical target without reaching out. I'd get this on the NHS, but this specific surgery isn't something they provide currently.
Those who know me personally will know that I don't ask for help with much; I'm a pretty independent person and I like to do things myself where I can, which is how this started out. However, it's becoming pretty clear that I'm not going to raise £30k+ of funds without a loan, hard graft, and a whole lot of help, so here I am. The money raised here is going solely to cover the cost of the surgery.


What is FFS?

Facial Feminisation Surgery! More info here if you want a professional primer on the ins and outs: https://facialteam.eu/ffs-surgery/

I've been on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for over 2 years now, but there are some things hormones simply cannot change; one of those things is a masculine facial structure, which I am regrettably in the possession of. When I went through puberty the first time around, my bone structure changed in irreversible ways - a more pronounced jaw, prominent brow bone, adam's apple, etc. This causes massive dysphoria in my everyday life, and I desperately want rid of it. I want to emphasise that this is not a cosmetic surgery; it means a whole lot more to me than that.


Why do you need it?

Facial Feminisation surgery will help alleviate a huge amount of the dysphoria I have to deal with, and will help me move about the world (both publicly and privately) much more freely; I won't have to wake up faced with an immediate reminder of my assigned gender at birth, for one thing, and other people are far less likely to misgender me in public based on appearance alone. Unfortunately, no matter how much makeup I apply or how much I cover up my hairline, it won't fix the root issue.


I don't have enough spare to donate right now!

That's okay!! That's more than okay. I don't expect anyone to donate more than is sensible for them, if anything at all. Anything you can give is appreciated tenfold, though, and sharing this around will help me massively, if that's something you can do.
Most of all though, thank you for reading. It means more than I can say some days. - Ellie

P.S. If anyone would like me to go more in depth on this, let me know! I can message you, or I can update here with more information.