#and it reminded me of how fucking ridiculous this lie is

people who act like all trans men have a super easy time raising money for top surgery etc piss me off so much…

i’ve been trying to raise money for my top surgery for probably 3 years now and out of the $8000 i need, i’ve gotten exactly $100. i’ve watched so many other trans people have these absolutely wild experiences with being able to raise tens of thousands of dollars while i’ve basically just had to come to terms with the fact that there’s no way in hell i’ll be able to pay for it through fundraising so i have to just pray i can save up enough

like…whatever image you have in your head of trans men as this group of people that everyone is desperate to throw their money at, i can assure you it’s dead fucking wrong, and i can’t put into words how exhausting it is to hear people talking about how easy it apparently should be for me to get the money i need while the reality is that i have no fucking clue how i’m going to be able to pay for my transition

every time i make an attempt to raise money and inevitably fail, i just feel more hopeless because i was sold this story about how miraculously easy it would be if i just put in a little bit of work and i had to find out the hard way that that literally couldn’t be further from the truth