Lukas’ Top Surgery Fund

Hi everyone,

My name is Lukas. I am a 28yr old trans guy with a deadline. I made an appoitment with Dr. Garromone in Florida for my top surgery on October 17, 2013. Less then 4 months away. I never ask for help but I am faced with the harsh realization that I may not make the financial deadline by that time. First let me tell you a little about myself. I have always been a tomboy for as long as I can remember. Hated dresses, makeup, barbies...etc. I think from the age of 9 I have known something was different. At that age I just didn't like being a girl. It wasn't until I turned 13 that it was more that I felt I wasn't a girl. I never told anyone and just went on being a tomboy. In highschool, I started getting more comments from family and friends about looking and acting like a boy....but not in a good way. So I tried harder to be a girl. Did my make up and grew my hair out. Wore more girly clothes...as much as I could stand. I would get really nice feed back from it and that part felt good. In high school I met a guy and after we graduated we got married. I was with him for about 6 years before everything came out. I wanted so much to be the wife he needed me to be but it never felt right. When he started talking about kids I knew I had to say something, because in my heart I knew I could never be a mother...I could never be pregnant. Even though I loved him with all my heart and truly wanted it to work out bewtween us I knew that this would never go away. I had to address it. So here I am now 28 years old finally being true to my authentic self and I'll tell you it hasn't been an easy road. I made a promise to myself that I wasn't going to hurt another person like that, including myself. So I started down my journey. That was a year and a half ago. My new years resolution was to make surgery a reality. To focus on that so I can not only be a better version of myself but also so that I could be a better person to those in my life. I have been depressed for a very long time and I am ready to be happy. I am ready to share that happiness with those close to me and I am ready to have a life. For the past 4 months I have been working 7 days a week 72 hrs a week. I am hitting a wall, I am so tired and my efforts have only gotten me as far as $3,000 in the next 4 months I have to still raise $6,000 more. My second job is the only thing funding this right now and that is averaging a little less then $1,000 a month. So you can see I am going to fall short. I desperately need some help to make my goal by october. I am still going to continuing working until my plane leaves to Florida and I won't give up...I have worked way too hard, sacraficed way too much, and have gotten so close to throw in the towel...I just need a little extra help. Even if it's only a couple bucks here and there, it would mean more to me then words could express. I have never been great at explaining to people how it feels to be trans but I did make a video for a contest for the place I will be staying at when I recover from surgery, so please feel free to watch it to better understand my plight. If you can't donate, that is perfectly ok, but please pass this along to anyone and everyone. Thank you so much for any and all support!! Here is the link to my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcmL5JICM4