I have seen many accounts for trans people who cannot afford their testosterone or the surgeries and they ask for monetary help, they are always GoFundMe's but I am Venezuelan and live in Colombia so I don't know how I can ask that kind of help (I cannot afford even the doctor's appointment, I am just taking T whenever I can and hopping nothing bad comes out of it) do any of you know how I can get monetary help for T, doctor appointments and/or surgery?
I am sorry if you find this post distasteful but I am really desperate and hope to get some help in this case...
and you could even have BOTH a vagina and a penis!!!
its called being salmacian!!
its what i plan on doing!!!
I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!
You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.
Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”