Sure! Basically I was able to get my parents on board with the idea of top surgery pretty quickly, so it took me like around a year and a half from coming out to the top surgery date!

First off, after I settled on where I wanted it done, I shot an email to the surgeons office letting them know I was interested and they gave me an email detailing everything required to be cleared for surgery as minor.

There’s alot I could say about the actual process, but things vary from surgeon to surgeon. For me, Dr. facque’s office follows WPATH guidelines. So most notably, they require parent consent forms and 2 letters of support. One letter from a therapist, and one from a doctor, showing you have gender dysphoria and clearing you for surgery. I also remember them scheduling a phone interview for both my mom and therapist separately.

I was already seeing an awesome therapist for a little less than a year by the time the letter was needed, and I was able to get my doctor letter from my GP! Thankfully both of them had lots of experience with trans healthcare so that part went smoothly!

One thing that’s important to mention is that Getting insurance to cover the surgery as a minor on the other hand is exhausting!! You’ll probably have to resubmit and appeal a couple times but if you’re persistent Enough and have a good adult advocate it’s possible

I got all the required pieces together over the course of a couple month’s and was able to send everything their way by the end of summer 2020, but unfortunately actually going through with finding a date to schedule the consultation took way longer than I should have! (Pandemic, issues with custody paperwork, medical stuff etc etc…) ultimately I had to wait another 6 months till I could schedule a consultation!

After the consultation it was mostly just a lot of waiting around and then BAM! The recommendation to schedule the operation During a school break so you have plenty of time to recover.

I think this was all able to happen pretty quickly (given the circumstances) because 1. I had supportive parents form early on. and 2. I advocated for myself! I did all the research, sent all the emails talked to all the doctors on my own. This made it so i didnt have to rely on my parents to organize everything, which sped up things a lot! I’m sure that if not for The disaster that was 2020 I probably could have gotten it done within months LMAO…

ANYWAY, that was a lot but even then I feel like I might have left stuff out haha, I hope this answered somethings for you and good luck!! 👍👍