Niko's Top Surgery n' Living Fund

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So, as many of you know, I've been out of the closet and living proudly as Nikolai for the last 5 or 6 years of my life.
This journey hasn't been sweet and easy, as much of my family is religious and pretty reserved in their ideas. The majority of my family refuses to recognize that I am a man, named Nikolai, and continue to misgender, dead-name, ridicule, and damn me to hell for my sins whilst claiming to be loving servants of Jesus Christ, and God.
Regardless of this, when I turned 18 and began working a stable and well-paying job, I decided to finally seek therapy for my gender identity issues. Id been wanting to go to therapy for my mental health issues and struggles with suicidality, but I hadnt had health insurance since I was in Elementary school, so now I was paying for each session out of pocket.  After seeing my therapist for a few months, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria as well as anxiety and major depression.
At this time I had just graduated from highschool, and gone through some traumatic events such as the return of my substance abusing father who had been in prison since I was young, and the divorce of my mother and stepfather who had been married since I was about 3.
The stress of the multitudes of situations I was forced into led me into my own struggle with substance abuse and I spent about half a year self-medicating myself into a pit of uncontrollable despair until I realized all the pills and liquor in the world couldn't make me comfortable in my own skin.
I then decided to take matters into my own hands and stop allowing my life to be lived through what I can do to make others happy, but rather what I can do to make myself happy.
So, I moved across the country from Texas to Brooklyn, New York to start the process of becoming who I truly am, and paving a place for that me in this world.
I'm currently out of work due to lack of necessary documentation, but in the process of getting said paperwork in hand. I'm an artist by nature, so I've been working commissions for money and doing what I can to make ends meet, but with everything that's been going on and the state of my mental health since coming to New York, saving funds has been nearly impossible and with each day being able to start hormone therapy, and eventually get top surgery seems further and further away.


That's where this comes into play!
I'm using this gofundme as a way to allow my friends, family, and anyone else who cares to help me out, a platform to do so. I am so very grateful for anybody that is willing to donate to my fund, as the proceeds will go to getting my gender corrective surgery, and paying for my other daily living expenses.
I will also be willing to create simple to complex art commissions  for anyone that asks, starting at donations of $20.
I'm also hoping that if you're reading this, and even if you can't donate monetarily, you realize the usability of your platform and share this on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter and help me reach my goal!