This guide speaks deeply to care, community, and the lived experiences of queer and trans folks. For many of us, connection and resources have been limited or disrupted — sometimes feeling impossibly far away.

Parts of this guide may bring comfort, and parts may bring up grief. Yet simply imagining surgery as a possibility connects you to a long legacy of queer and trans people who believed in self-authorship and body autonomy.

This article was key in shaping the decision to pursue top surgery, and it’s shared here in the spirit of gratitude and community — to pass forward the insight, love, and support that made it possible.

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