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Hi friends! I'm Noah. I'm a 23 year old trans guy living in New York City. I work as a research assistant studying abortion and family planning, am a dues paying DSA member, and organize with a marxist-feminist collective called Red Bloom.
I primarily organize around sex work decriminalization and mutual aid for criminalized people; in addition, I write about socialist feminism on social media and for publication. I'm currently putting together a piece for an upcoming Trans Marxism anthology on trans gender identity formation through queer/trans community social reproduction.
I first came out as trans when I was 15 years old. My family wasn't immediately supportive, so I tried my best to repress it for as long as I could. Since then, I've come out again two times: once as nonbinary when I was 17, and once again as a trans guy in January 2018, at the age of 22.
It's been a rocky road; I've had to deal with a lot of guilt and shame about my identity from all directions, including queer and feminist communities that should have been supportive. But thanks to a lot of support from friends and partners, and a family that, with persistence, came around to understand, I'm finally growing comfortable with myself.
I started hormones in June 2017, in an extreme act of self-kindness that I never thought was possible for me. The results have been amazing at every level, but I'm still experiencing significant dysphoria; specifically, around my chest. I'm disabled, and chronic pain makes it impossible for me to bind most of the time. This means even after 7 months on hormones, most strangers still call me "miss", which I find incredibly distressing.
But you can help with this! I'm raising money to pay for top surgery, which has been a long-time desire of mine, though it took me some time to accept. My insurance is paying 80% of the provider I want, but he's out of network, so I need to pay 20% after reimbursement- $2100. I've chosen this surgeon because he's the only one in NYC who offers a surgery that allows for continued nipple sensation (TMI, sorry!), and being able to feel my nips is kind of important to me, lmao <3
All trans people deserve medical care using whichever procedure they choose, which should be covered 100% in a single-payer program. Until then, though, I'm blessed to have a social network of friends, comrades, and kind internet strangers who I really hope can help me achieve this dream.
Solidarity,
Noah Z.
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