Hey man that sounds really rough. It's so grim how one is reminded of how these life saving surgeries are withheld from those desperately in need simply because they cannot affort them. It's inhumane. How are your future prospects if I may ask? Are there ways which you could save up for your surgery? Do you feel like you could treat your addiction?
We do have a public health system here, but just to be on the line for surgery I need to have 2 years on testosterone and 2 years of psychiatric counseling, all documented, and I don't have it yet. Also once I get in the line it'll take a few years to be called, so I'll probably be catching the bus way before I can do it
And for my addiction, I think I could treat it someday, but not for now, I can't even think of how I'd do it. So I'll just keep up the HRT I got through the public system and it'll probably be it, maybe I get into gym when/if I get a job
Hi guys,
I am so insanely tired and mentally bashing my head off a wall. I'm so sick of not being respected. I hate that I feel safer trapping myself in my own bedroom than stepping one foot out since anywhere outside of the peace of my own bedroom doesn't care about me or who I am. I'm repeatedly called what i'm not by even people who were introduced to me as a boy. I can't even start testosterone yet because of my antipsychotics not being stabilized and it feels like nobody will accept me unless i'm on testosterone already since i'm "girly". Binders are too expensive. My voice is too high. Honestly, my dysphoria is the thing that is closest to making me go into the hospital or just caving and going through with CTB. The only thing that's been stopping me is my significant other's support. I hate society.
Hi, I know how tiring it is to be misgendered and deadnamed, my whole family does it to me even though I'm on hrt for nearly 2 years, legally changed my name, and pass for most of the time. Just know that it's not how others accept you that counts, I know people who are 100% passing, have all the surgeries, hrt for years and are still purposely misgendered by some fuckers who won't respect them. People like this will always exist, and I've learned that sometimes I just need to know when to tell these people to fuck off. Most of them won't change, and it sucks, so you do you.
Hope you're able to get binders and hrt, but if/while you're not, you're still as valid and it's not your fault that people don't respect that