Hi, 

Ellis here. My friends said more people will give money if I beg - in my own unique way. So, here you go:

I’d tell you how much it sucks to navigate medical transition as a Black Trans male immigrant in Norway, but I really really don’t want to bum you out. Just know that my dysphoria is so horrible that I spend hours thinking “But, Ellis, how hard can it really be to cut these tits off yourself?!”

I don’t want to have tits and I can’t wait until however long it takes for the state to agree that I’m a man who would so desperately rather not have said tits. So, I need to crowdsource my deliverance from these fucking tits! Please, help by giving whatever you can afford. Or just sharing the Spleis with other people.

Seeing that I have no medical training whatsoever and am very queasy around blood, I cannot be trusted to perform a double mastectomy on myself. So, please, help me get this surgery done by an actual trained surgeon. And as a thank you, I can name my reconstructed chest after all of you, or just send you a well-written thank-you note.

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We are a group of friends wanting to fundraise a life saving top surgery for our friend, Ellis. He is someone who offers so much love and care for people in his community. Someone who always shows up when its needed: whether it be in a crisis situation or when you just need someone to laugh and chill with. Theres been some really dark periods in his life where sometimes the struggle with dysphoria has been life threatning. As trans people ourselves we know how heavy it is to cope with body dysphoria. It impacts everything in our life from how and if we let people touch us to hyper vigilance towards everything around us.  We want Ellis to live in a body that mirrors who he is, a body that brings him deep joy and that grows his capacity to live and stay in this life because we need him.

Thank you for reading this and for the donations and shares. It means the world to us.