Dear Friends;
My
name is Christopher Higdon and I am writing to you today in regards to
something that I feel most important and something not often discussed. What
you don’t know about me is that I am a Step-father, a Fiancé and believe it or
not I am a Trans Identified Male. I have
decided to take my transition to the next step and I am finally taking the
steps to become the man I have always dreamt of becoming. A man that my
Daughter can be proud to call “her daddy” and my Fiancé call “her Husband”.
I
dream of a day that I could wake and be proud of who I am, a day when I could
look in a mirror and appreciate what I see. Many people I know can relate to
this feeling of inadequacies but how many of you can look in a mirror and see a
different gender, a completely different person then who feel you are. I know this is incomprehensible to many
people as they don’t understand how one can be of a different gender then
assigned at birth.
This is why many of us hide who
we are, we become burdened with a hatred for our own existence and many of us
commit suicide. Some of us have learned how to cope with our feelings and were
diagnosed with the medical condition called gender dysphoria.
We are able to then receive hormone replacement therapy and have learned ways
to present ourselves as the person we feel until such time as we have our
gender reassignment surgery.
One
of the ways we are able to present ourselves as whom we feel inside is to bind
our chest. In doing this we bind our breast tissue tight against our bodies until
we achieve a more male look. For some that is much easier than others.
For some, like me, this is extremely difficult as we have larger chests. The
result from binding can cause painful medical issues like: constricting your
lungs and labored breathing, breast lumps, and even blisters and scars. These
are physically painful and yet the emotional pain from being perceived as the
wrong gender than how I feel is a much deeper pain and so I choose to continue
to bind night and day.
These
are just some of the reasons my chest reconstruction is a necessary life
altering surgery and I am asking for all your help to raise the approximately 14,000.00
Canadian dollars necessary to complete my transition. To raise the funds I have opened an Indiegogo
campaign called “Chris’ Campaign” This Campaign goes live to accept funds on
October 31st, 2013 a date that is important to me as it is my 6 year
birthday as Christopher and 5 years on hormones. You can preview the campaign on https://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/5ef70ef7, and once live if you feel inclined you can contribute here http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chris-campaign.
I am also accepting recyclables at Evergreen locations under account number 709-682-1312. I have
perks based on contribution and ask that if you cannot donate that you please
share this letter so that my story can reach all sides of the globe. Thank you
for your continued support and acceptance.
Christopher Higdon
“I wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you
try, dreams are made possible when people try.” Terry Fox
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