Vic's Cool Top Surgery Fund
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Hey pals!
My name is Victor, I'm a 24-year-old Toronto-based Brazilian transmasc animation student/comics maker/children's bookstore employee.
The short version:
It would mean the world to me to be able to get top surgery right after graduating from school, before starting to work full-time. I'm not covered by Ontario Health Insurance (OHIP), so that means I'll have to pay for it out of pocket!
The surgery itself will cost close to CAD$11.000,00, and I'll need at least another CAD$1000.00 for living expenses while I recover. I've been saving up for a while. but getting this done before May means I need your help!
I'm asking for CAD$6.000,00, because that's the amount I need to be confident enough to start making appointments. I'm saving up the rest of the money myself. So, you and me, we're going halfsies!
The long version:
I'm trans, and I have this fun thing called gender dysphoria. It's wild and bad and means (among other things) that I feel a deep, deep discomfort towards certain parts of my body. The thing that causes me the most distress is the fact that I have boobs!
Some transmasculine people are able to conceal their chest by wearing something called a binder. Unfortunately, my back is kind of messed up and I can't wear one for longer than two hours, because it really hurts!
I've made a handy visual reference:
This really sucks! The first time I put on a binder, I cried out of sheer happiness. It had been so, so long since something about my body felt so right!
That is why top surgery is, for me, one of the most important steps of my transition. It's basically removing my breasts and breast tissue so I can have what people think of as a "male" chest.
I'm really lucky to live in a time and a place where medical transitioning provides me with the tools I need to align the way I present to myself to the world with the way I feel ~inside~! now I just need around twelve thousand dollars to make it happen.
Why the heck do you need to get this surgery before May?
I'm about to start the last year of my Bachelor's of Animation, and I'm super scared!
Come May, I'll be looking for full-time employment in the animation industry in Canada so I can have continued access to everything I need for my transition (and so I don't have to move back to the LGBTQ murder capital of the world). I've been told over and over again that Canadian companies are already less likely to hire you if you don't have citizenship or permanent residency, since that means they'll need to fill out a bunch of paperwork. Banking on getting a job in the Canadian animation industry as a visibly queer trans person who isn't able to perform to the best of their ability because they're constantly uncomfortable or in pain on top of that sounds...pretty foolish. So I'm trying to do what I can to not have to go through that!
If you've made it this far: thank you so much for reading! I honestly don't know what to expect from this, but I'm tentatively hopeful. I can't express how much being able to get this surgery on my own terms would mean to me, and what a difference it would make to my general well-being.
<3,
Vic
My name is Victor, I'm a 24-year-old Toronto-based Brazilian transmasc animation student/comics maker/children's bookstore employee.
The short version:
It would mean the world to me to be able to get top surgery right after graduating from school, before starting to work full-time. I'm not covered by Ontario Health Insurance (OHIP), so that means I'll have to pay for it out of pocket!
The surgery itself will cost close to CAD$11.000,00, and I'll need at least another CAD$1000.00 for living expenses while I recover. I've been saving up for a while. but getting this done before May means I need your help!
I'm asking for CAD$6.000,00, because that's the amount I need to be confident enough to start making appointments. I'm saving up the rest of the money myself. So, you and me, we're going halfsies!
The long version:
I'm trans, and I have this fun thing called gender dysphoria. It's wild and bad and means (among other things) that I feel a deep, deep discomfort towards certain parts of my body. The thing that causes me the most distress is the fact that I have boobs!
Some transmasculine people are able to conceal their chest by wearing something called a binder. Unfortunately, my back is kind of messed up and I can't wear one for longer than two hours, because it really hurts!
I've made a handy visual reference:
This really sucks! The first time I put on a binder, I cried out of sheer happiness. It had been so, so long since something about my body felt so right!
That is why top surgery is, for me, one of the most important steps of my transition. It's basically removing my breasts and breast tissue so I can have what people think of as a "male" chest.
I'm really lucky to live in a time and a place where medical transitioning provides me with the tools I need to align the way I present to myself to the world with the way I feel ~inside~! now I just need around twelve thousand dollars to make it happen.
Why the heck do you need to get this surgery before May?
I'm about to start the last year of my Bachelor's of Animation, and I'm super scared!
Come May, I'll be looking for full-time employment in the animation industry in Canada so I can have continued access to everything I need for my transition (and so I don't have to move back to the LGBTQ murder capital of the world). I've been told over and over again that Canadian companies are already less likely to hire you if you don't have citizenship or permanent residency, since that means they'll need to fill out a bunch of paperwork. Banking on getting a job in the Canadian animation industry as a visibly queer trans person who isn't able to perform to the best of their ability because they're constantly uncomfortable or in pain on top of that sounds...pretty foolish. So I'm trying to do what I can to not have to go through that!
If you've made it this far: thank you so much for reading! I honestly don't know what to expect from this, but I'm tentatively hopeful. I can't express how much being able to get this surgery on my own terms would mean to me, and what a difference it would make to my general well-being.
<3,
Vic
Organisator
Victor Martins
Organisator
Oakville, ON