help fund toby's top surgery for march 2025!!!!!!!

I HAVE MY SURGERY DATE!!! MARCH 19TH 2025!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FULL AMOUNT TO BE PAID MARCH 12TH! TBOY SPRING IS REAL

howdy! i'm toby. he/him. i am a trans man & i am funding for my top surgery. as of september 2024, i have around 75% of my fund covered from a mix of startling luck & my part-time job, but i am a full-time college student, so the rest of my funding is in this fundraiser. any & all support is greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!

i have always had gender dysphoria from as early as preschool - a precocious kid, was i, asking my mother why i wasn't like my favourite cartoon character ben 10, or why i couldn't pee like my dad, why i couldn't be a boy. i'd have tantrums about having to wear 'girly' underwear. age five i had to be bribed with sweets to wear a dress for my aunt's wedding. age six i was a 'tomboy' wearing trousers over skirts or dresses, i'd pretend to be a boy for imaginary games, hated the colour pink because it was 'girly', mostly played with the boys on the playground. made one cry squeezing his hand. baby's earliest gender euphoria.

when i was about seven, my elder sister showed me a video of an american child who was like me - he was a girl, but is now a boy. "you could be called leonardo, if you want!" she told me. i didn't think much of it beyond, "well, i'd like to be a boy but i don't want a willy. but i don't want my bits either." i continued to not really think about it but asked for a haircut 'like a boy' every cut i could. got bobs, mostly.

at an age too young, i joined tumblr; at thirteen, i learned & saw people's gender identities - i learned about what being 'trans' means to them, what being trans is. i found out what being non-binary was because of the main protagonist of the game UNDERTALE, frisk, who is non-gendered. i thought, "o shit dat me", & came out on facebook as genderqueer & asked to be referred to by they/them pronouns. i continued to identity as genderqueer/non-binary until i was fourteen where i started using he/him pronouns & identified more strongly as a binary trans man.

at age fifteen, i started looking into options for hormones & top surgery. i was much more certain about hormones at the time than surgery, because surgery scared me a bit. i found a service recommended by a family friend that help trans patients through an informed consent/self-referral model & at sixteen worked my way through the process to get started on testosterone with the help of my GP & my family. it took a bit, but in august 2023 when i was seventeen, i started t. as the weeks & months went by i became certain of a few things - 1.) i am so much happier, 2.) i really hate a-level philosophy & 3.) i really want top surgery, like so bad.

in october 2023, i started looking into surgeons & found one i could get to reasonably & whose results i enjoyed the look of & had good reviews. i emailed his secretary in october & got a quote for how much everything would be; in november 2023, three months on t, i launched this fundraiser with its original goal of £9,265. over the months that goal was slowly chipped at with help from my friends & family. with this, my certainty & desire for surgery increased tenfold.

in august 2024, i secured my two surgery referral letters to secure surgery for myself if things continue to go to plan - all with the help of the fundraiser & my new job. i dropped the goal down by £1,000. this month, september 2024, i got a very generous & lucky roll of the dice & can cover about 65% of my surgery goal solo; the remaining 25% is what i have put as my goal for this fundraiser now.

when i send my surgery referral letters off (i've been too afraid to actually send them lol), i'll be able to fund my surgeon consultations; from there - if i qualify for surgery - it could be two to three months out. i don't have anything confirmed at the moment but things are going FAST & i am so excited, so scared & so grateful for every ounce of support this fundraiser has gained. every share or donation has been so, so, so helpful.

thank you all so much for continuing to support my journey to get these tits yeeted.