Help with Chrissy's Gender Transition Costs

I'm a trans woman who was raised as a boy and indoctrinated in the Christian Right, including at anti-LGBTQ Christian schools. The resulting religious trauma and delayed recognition of repressed queerness have taken a huge toll on me, but here I am at last, in my late 30s and recently moved to Portland, Oregon, where I can get started with gender transition in a relatively safe environment.

I hope that my story, and my process of transitioning publicly, will help others from similar backgrounds, and that's one reason I'd appreciate your support. Another is  the simple fact that no matter how good your health insurance, gender transition is expensive!

I'm a freelance writer, researcher, blogger, podcaster, and commentator who could not currently be getting by without Patreon, and, as of this writing (September 9, 2019), I've been on estradiol for less than a week. I pay over $300 a month for an AHA insurance plan, and that's with a subsidy, because buying a gold plan is more cost effective when you know you have a whole lot of copays coming up. And then there are the costs not covered by insurance.

Identified as male at birth, I've been uncomfortable in my own skin for my entire life, even though it took a long time for me to put my finger on exactly why. And at this point I would very much like to get to a place of being comfortable in my own skin, via getting my exterior to match my interior, as quickly and smoothly as possible. In addition to the insurance premiums and copays for the procedures covered by insurance (surgeries are still expensive), here are some of the associated costs I would appreciate any help defraying:

Laser hair removal: This is essential for most trans women. I'm going in for my first session today, and will be paying $3590 for a total of six sessions, after which some follow-up sessions will probably still be needed to make sure all the hair in the areas I'm getting treated is permanently gone. Those areas are: face (the most important), upper and lower arms, chest, torso, and back. That's right, I'm not even getting my legs done, and the upfront costs to be mostly hair-free in these areas is well into the thousands.

Therapy: While I don't know the exact figure I'll end up spending on therapy at this point, I need regular therapy to help me process my religious trauma (which is bound up with my queerness), and most likely also therapy sessions specifically tailored to getting a professional psychologist to sign off on sex reassignment surgery if I do decide that I definitely want a vaginoplasty (I'm leaning strongly in that direction).

A new wardrobe: Clothes and shoes are not cheap, and I will have to be buying quite a few of them for the foreseeable future.

Administrative fees for name change: Before too long, I will be going through the onerous process of legally changing my name and getting all my important IDs updated. 

Opportunity cost: Time really is money, and I'll be putting a lot of time into the work necessary to realizing my true  self over the next few years.

I've had quite the journey to this point.  Since 2014, when, while teaching at a Russian university in Moscow, I finally came to realize and accept that I am a transgender woman, I have been trying to get to place in life where I feel stable and safe enough to pursue gender transition. Since I have a Ph.D. in Russian history, I was hoping that place would be a tenure-track university professorship, but as those TT jobs are disappearing, I've had to leave academia.

Thanks so much for your consideration! If you're not able to give yourself--and please don't if you can't afford to--I would be very grateful if you'd simply share this link.