Mum hopes to fund sex change

Published date25 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Dawn Womack, from Wakefield, is raising the money to help her daughter Zoey, who has been transitioning since she was 16

Now 19, she faces long waiting lists on the NHS before she can get the treatment she so desperately needs. Due to these long delays, Zoey has been suffering with her mental health and so Dawn has decided to instead raise money to pay for the surgery.

Due to it being cheaper abroad, she has now booked the surgery in Madrid, Spain.

Dawn said: "She has not even been able to get anything for her mental health through the GP, there's just no support whatsoever for it. So we've been funding the hormone treatment ourselves and so this has led to doing it online because it's so expensive to do it the right way."

Dawn added: "The reason for the GOFUNDME is for...

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