Built For Our Community
You Don't Have To Figure This Out Alone. We Built This So You Wouldn't Have To.
Why We Built This — And Why We Keep Going
Our Journey
OUR BEGINNING
From identity to purpose
I was born a girl, but my heart knew I was a boy. As a kid, I felt like a stranger in my own body—trapped in a frame that didn’t feel like mine. That struggle wasn’t just internal. It was a journey marked by confusion and a deep sense of being out of place, one that stretched on for years and led me down some very dark roads.
Then one day, everything changed. I learned the word transgender, and for the first time, I didn’t feel so alone. I found hope in the possibility of physically transitioning—a path toward becoming the man I had always known myself to be.
My transition journey has been long and complex. Over more than a decade, I have undergone 20 different surgeries and procedures—the majority of them being revisions due to complications.
My co-founder and co-owner, Heidi, has been my caregiver through every stage. She witnessed firsthand the pain, frustration, and complications that came with each procedure. At times, it felt like the process would never end.
Even today, my physical transition is still ongoing. I am still navigating surgeries and recovery, and my journey is not yet complete. That lived, present experience continues to shape everything we build—because recovery isn’t something we’ve left behind. It’s something we still live with, learn from, and understand deeply.
What we came to realize was this: the hardest part wasn’t the surgeries themselves—it was the recovery.
Nobody handed us a checklist. Nobody told us what to actually buy, how much of it we needed, or what nobody warns you about — like never skipping your stool softener when you are on pain medication. We learned everything the hard way. And we decided that was the last generation that should have to.
We were given generic instructions from doctors and sent on a frustrating runaround for supplies. We spent countless hours researching, wasted money on products that didn’t work, and made endless trips to the store in the middle of an already exhausting healing process. We paid multiple shipping fees for incomplete supply lists and were left feeling overwhelmed when we needed support the most.
That frustration became our mission. We knew there had to be a better way—one that didn’t leave people flying blind. That’s why we started this brand.
FROM OUR FOUNDERS
Recovery is not just physical
“Encountering several complications, a number of failed procedures, and undergoing revision surgeries that followed made my gender-affirming surgical journey feel endless. No matter how painful recovering from surgery could be, never lose hope, keep going, and don't stop until you’ve reached the end of your journey.
Yet, you have endured the hardest part of all. Living a false life in the wrong body and surviving to this day shows how strong you really are. With that, the obstacles of recovery should be a small hurdle you have to overcome compared to what you have already gone through so far in your life."
— Anen, Founder & Co-Owner
“I have experienced secondhand the pain, sickness, negative emotions, frustration, and complications that came with each of Anen’s post-operative surgeries. Despite feeling like I had nothing left in me to alleviate all of this, I pushed to get Anen to recover as soon as possible and each time that he did, it was a step closer for him to being complete. Our journey yet continues, and being a part of this process and never giving up will only make us stronger than we had ever imagined."
— Heidi, Co-Founder & Co-Owner
We share these words not for sympathy — but because we want you to know exactly who is behind every kit we send. This is personal. It has always been personal.
OUR RECOVERY KITS
Built To Make One Hard Thing Easier
Trans Recovery Supply was born from our own years in the trenches, with Anen as the patient and Heidi as his caregiver, navigating recovery through 20 gender-affirming surgeries and procedures so far, including top surgery, hysterectomy, and phalloplasty. We created this brand because no one should have to figure this out alone.
We exist to save you time and stress with curated, all-in-one recovery kits. Every product is personally tested or carefully vetted, and how we built each kit depends on the surgery.
Our top surgery and phalloplasty kits
Built for transmasculine and nonbinary people
• Anen’s own recovery experience, with Heidi’s firsthand view as his caregiver.
• What his surgeons recommended to him.
• Feedback from other trans men on what worked for them.
• Highly rated reviews and research from transgender-led blogs, forums, and educational resources.
Our vaginoplasty and breast augmentation kits
Built for transfeminine and nonbinary people
• Research into what surgeons recommend for these surgeries.
• Feedback from trans women who have had these surgeries about what worked and what didn’t.
• Highly rated reviews and research from transgender-led blogs, forums, and educational resources.
Across every kit, we also draw on our knowledge of products currently used in healthcare settings.
We cannot make surgery easier. We cannot take away the fear or the waiting or the hard days of recovery. But we can make sure that when you open your kit box, you feel, for a moment, like you are receiving a gift from someone who has been through it all, someone who is standing right beside you.
Because we are.
— Anen & Heidi, Founders of Trans Recovery Supply
Trans Recovery Supply has been showing up for our community since 2019 — through slow months, through Anen’s surgeries and procedures, through everything. Built from lived experience and community feedback. Sustained by the belief that you don’t have to carry the weight of recovery alone. We are still here. We are not going anywhere.
