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Hiya! My name is Elizabeth, and I'm a writer and a trans woman living in New England. I've started this campaign to help with some of the costs that come with transitioning.
Back in October of 2014, I started taking hormones and while the results so far have been fantastic, they've also allowed for sharper pangs of dysphoria. Specifically relating to my facial hair and, more broadly, to living in a world where I don't really "pass" as a cis person.
I'm lucky in that my state insurance covers the cost of my hormones and visits to my doctor for checkins and blood tests, but that's where the support stops and my extraordinarily limited funds have to step in. See, the state pays for all of that because I don't have a job and what income I generate is eaten up in a matter of days. Which, as you can imagine, makes things like hair removal and having clothes that actually match my body a struggle.
It's also hard to find steady work when you're visibly trans and have a long history of depression & related anxiety. Eight years of fighting my own head does a number on ability to get out of bed, let alone your job history.
So, I need help. Specifically, I want to start on laser hair removal, because the material and emotional cost of shaving my face every day is torture, and I shouldn't have to live with it. Starting is gonna require around five hundred (500) dollars, based on Groupon rates and incidental expenses. After that, it's a matter of seeing how I take to the treatment, but it's likely that I'll be spending the next year getting zapped, with supplemental treatments like electrolysis to put a permanent end to the more stubborn patches (which will cost just as much, if not more.)
With that issue tackled, anything else would be used for things like clothes that don't erase the developing lines of my body and pocket change to help out the people who keep roofs over my head. Small things, in the grand scheme, but things that I'm desperate to accomplish for my own peace of mind. Whatever you can do to help me get that peace is appreciated.
Anyway, thanks for reading. Stay safe, y'all.
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