Genderbands L3C is a low-profit LLC that raises money to help transgender men afford top surgery. ALL donations and 20% of profits goes into a Top Surgery Grant Fund to help other transguys get top surgery. Donate today! goo.gl/K4M8Y5
Genderbands is a business geared towards alleviating trans dysphoria, one person at a time. Every purchase supports the FTM top surgery fund and makes a life-altering surgery that much more believable for a trans man. Why alleviate dysphoria, and why focus specifically on top surgery? My name is Ian Giles, and I am the owner of Genderbands. I am a transfluid FTM transgender person, and I know what dysphoria feels like. I know how absolutely suffocating it can be to feel trapped in your own body, and I also know how life-altering top surgery is for trans men. Genderbands began as a way for me to pay for my own top surgery, and proceeds did help me make that a reality. On July 16, 2015, I was able to receive top surgery from Dr. Charles Garramore in Florida. Top surgery changed my life for the better: after years of feeling constrained by my own chest, I could finally breathe. As a college student and a single parent, my life gets kind of busy. I wanted to find a way to support other trans guys in receiving this surgery in some way, and so I decided to use Genderbands as a way to raise money for FTM top surgery in the form of a surgery grant. In this, I feel that by helping even just one person, that is one person who can now live a life without dysphoria. Since its beginning, Genderbands has grown. We offer more wristband options and are branching into t-shirts as alternative ways to earn money. I look forward to seeing how this business grows and changes as time goes on, the lives it will affect for the better. I appreciate your part as you join us on this journey to alleviate dysphoria, one person at a time.
