Dan, he/him, bi, 18+ | Multifandom badass | Bard of Blood, Capricen | This is basically a hobby blog with memes sometimes. I may reblog suggestive art.
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I need help raising money so I can get top surgery! Any amount helps, and if you can't donate please consider reblogging or sharing the link with people you know. Thank you!
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I would like to remain as anonymous as possible, so you can call me D, or Viridian (my online pseudonym). I'm a 23 year old disabled trans man, living in Canada. I live in poverty due to my disabilities making it impossible for me to hold a full time job.
I've been out and socially transitioned since 2018, but medically transitioning has been a series of increasingly impossible-to-navigate hurdles for me, due to being "lost in the shuffle" multiple times over the past six years. Despite starting the process to get HRT within a few months of coming out, I did not successfully get the prescription until 4 years later in 2022. I'm facing similar hurdles in accessing top surgery, which is having an extreme negative effect on my mental health.
Every public clinic I try to get referred to has so far denied me due to my lack of access to a specialist who can put the request in to have the surgery covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). There are no specialists available to me in any form, and because of this it is virtually impossible for me to proceed and get my surgery covered.
I am extremely large chested (DDD cups) which makes binding especially painful, and even the best binders can only reduce me to the flatness of a B cup. I also experience the other common problems of having large breasts, such as shoulder and back pain, as well as bacterial infections on my skin due to sweat in the summer. I've tried to apply for breast reductions in desperation to have at least relieve the chronic pain from my chest size, but even with OHIP coverage they demand an extra payment from my pockets of thousands of dollars for an additional contouring procedure that I neither can nor want to spend money on, as this would put me into deep debt for a chest that I don't even want.
After 6 years of trying to medically transition, and over a decade of debilitating dysphoria, I'm at my wit's end with the public healthcare system and believe the only way I will ever access top surgery is if I go private and pay out of pocket, but there is no way that I would be able to save enough money for surgery alone.
I have only a vague idea of how much money I need, and have set the goal at $10k. The number may change over time (likely to something lower) as I do more research.
If by some miracle I surpass the amount I need for surgery and travel costs, additional money will go towards other transition-related expenses such as paying for my T, getting my sex marker changed, etc. and after that, disability-related expenses, such as the expensive braces I need for my hypermobile joints.
Any amount at all helps, and if you can't donate at all, please consider sharing. Thank you!
edit: there is a small possibility that i can get OHIP coverage from an old referral (from the specialist i saw very briefly to get my HRT) that was never properly put through and my GPs office is looking into that. in that case, i will only need probably 2000 (maybe 3000?) for all the small additional things that OHIP wouldnt cover. this is the best case scenario. and again if i raise more than i need for top surgery the additional funds will go towards things like my HRT (which i pay for out of pocket every month) and disability aids that i cant afford on my own, so your donations will not go to waste in that case