(Photo from F1NN5TER’s Twitter)
Popular Twitch streamer F1NN5TER raised $50,000 in May for for the online transgender health and wellbeing clinic Gender GP.
Gender GP is a private, global-reaching transgender health care service headquartered in the U.K. It is the regions only provider outside the National Health Service that provides care for trans youth.
Since it is providing it’s care via telehealth the wait times are almost none existent for the roughly 9,000 patients that receive care.
Susie Green, program director at GenderGP, has been a trans activist for nearly 24 years now.
“The reason I’m involved is because someone I love is trans and actually lots of people that I love are trans now. Having been in the community for such a long time, and so many of my friends and extended family, as it were, are trans themselves.”
Green has been involved in Mermaids, a gender-diverse support charity. Green started first as a parent and trustee before eventually becoming CEO of the organization from 2016 until November 2022.
Coming to Gender GP also came with heading the Gender GP Fund. Created after the the Bell v Tavistock case, which restricted access to gender-affirming health care to young people without a court order, the fund was created to help young people. Unfortunately, it had a rocky rollout and eventually ended.
That was until Green entered the pictured and in early February was given the opportunity to head the fund and see it done correctly.
“The Fund itself, we started fundraising for it, we got just over £14,000 ($17,925.95 in U.S. dollars) in there for young people,” Green said. “That was raised specifically for young people when we set up the youth fund. Then obviously what we’ve had since then is the donation from F1nn5ter.”
With just under 700,000 followers on Twitch, F1NN5TER is not your typical Twitch streamer. Originally streaming game play footage, he started donations for “Girl Month” where if he received $1,000, he would dress like his female character “Rose” for a month. Three years later of dressing as “Rose” and F1NN5TER is one of the most popular streamers on the platform.
F1NN5TER, who is a self-identified cross dresser and uses he/him pronouns, can regularly be seen on stream trying on new outfits, applying makeup and playfully bantering with his audience. He also has regular interactions with adult film performer and twitch streamer, Jean Hollywood as well as voice actor/Twitch streamer Cottontail VA.
In December 2022, F1NN5TER announced on a stream that he wanted to raise money for an organization. For six months he was looking into organizations to make sure the money would be well spent. Eventually he was made aware of Gender GP and felt they were the right organization to move forward with.
“I set up some calls, [we] spoke to F1NN5TER, talked through the mechanics of it, how that would work. How that needed to come into the company and what that would cover,” Green says.
Trans health care, like all health care, is different for each and every individual. There is much that can go in the way of care and the Gender GP Fund is there to help cover the complete cost of as many individual’s care as they can. This helps when the general practitioners are able to pick up the costs of certain tests and procedures, lowering the overall cost of care for the patients.
“That £40,000 will probably support 24 people. If all of their costs were covered by the fund. If we can get shared care for all of them, which is unlikely because GPs are very conservative with regards to trans health care in the U.K., then that would double to amount of people we could support,” Green says.
That £40,000 will focus on helping adults receive the care they need. Each individual will be able to receive an entire year of care with no money out of their own pockets.
The £14,000 set side for youth care is being held until Gender GP can set up a nonprofit to legitimize the fund as well as allowing for transparency in regards to how much the fund is spending on care. Unfortunately the money will only cover about six children but with fundraising and more generous donations the fund can provide for more people. Even those living outside the U.K. During the interview, Green says they had already received an application from Peru.
When asked if this was a one-time donation or would this become an ongoing partnership with F1NN5TER, Green says they aren’t sure.
“I don’t know, hopefully, maybe he’ll able to do some fundraising and continue to support people ongoing,” Green says. “It’s not an expectation. Our expectation is that we are gonna need to put some hard work in to get that for ourselves.”
For Green, this isn’t the first time interacting with streamers raising money. In 2019 HBomberGuy raised over $340,000 for Mermaids. Green says they appreciate the gaming community for all their charity.
“That was a huge boost to us as a charity at the time. And you know something, it just shows you the power of the gaming community,” green says. “That was what he did then, obviously F1NN5TER has done this now with regards to the fund. Anybody else feels like doing one of those streams and sending the money to the fund please do it would be very gratefully received.”
Watermark reached out to F1NN5TER for this story but did not hear back as of press time.
Find more information on Gender GP at GenderGP.com. You can watch F1NN5TER’s Twitch streams here.
