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[–] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I agree with the sentiment, and given the big picture of what you advocate for,

Every single trans person on this planet deserves to have their right to access recognized, codified, and enforced.

, within the limits of the current working system of health, you have my general agreement.

The reason, I think, that this post grates you a bit, is because behind it, there is a secondary ideological belief. That is, a different view around enforcement, the anarchic one.

The idea (that I as a trans person strongly support), is that the Government, the entity which decides legal limitations around medications, shouldn't even be allowed to have the ability to manage HRT, because if it has the ability, it will unavoidably use it at some point down the line.

Unless you're willing to say that drugs like nicotine shouldn't be over the counter due to the real health risk they pose, then it isn't the government legislators' job, to decide via restriction, who gets access to HRT medication.

The idea around prescription drugs, is that you're supposed to have easy access to them whenever you need them via doctor's orders, and they are restricted for one of these three reasons:

Either 1. They are useless outside their use AND rapidly irreversibly dangerous, 2. They can be made into threats for the state (see, bomb materials), or 3. Their risk is so great, that there's value protecting people from seeking them (see, opioids and other addictive substances).

HRT isn't addictive, and is slow acting, while being life saving for people who often are failed by the current social system. The only reason to limit HRT, (in a world where Alcohol is in super markets for 2 euro per liter lol), is reason number 2., every 50 years that fascists come out from their holes.

This is one of those many, many cases, where, your beautiful and correct dream of safety for our world that I agree with, should maybe (/s) Not start from restrictions to minorities.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    Yeah agreed and I mean the risks of current hrt are really minor, I know the most about estrogen so I'll tall about that, but even blood clots on doses that are too high is debated since a lot of the studies on that were with non-bioidentical types of estradiol iirc. The cancer risk they brought up also literally just changes the chances of you developing certain types of cancer to basically what the risks for a cis person who naturally has those hormones is. Same with any kind of clotting disorders, it just makes it closer to the risks of a cis women. No cis women with clotting disorders or a history of cancer are being prescribed estrogen blockers preemptively to reduce their risks of those.

    But also like, should the government restrict purchases of every single thing that could harm someone? I truly believe somerthing like a knife, or certain power tools are honestly more likely to cause injury than hrt, same with alcohol as well obviously. IDK why medicine specifically requires protecting people from more than any of those.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    In 80% of cases, it's because of authoritarianism. In 20%, it's because expecting someone to have a good sense of space to not poke an eye out with a drill, is much more reasonable than expecting the Charlatans to pick safe snake oils to sell.

    No one ever buys random drugs they know nothing about, but things you know nothing about, are perfect Charlatan fields.

    Sad example:Here in Greece, people literally tell each other medications to try, no doctor appointment required, as panaceas. It's not even for money, it's the same impulse that makes people share "super foods", and "mindfulness exercises". It's alienated, suffering people, with no real solution to their problems, making tiny religions around symbols. Just in this case, these symbols do liver damage.

    So let's make it harder to trick people into injecting horse de-wormer or whatever. You have to at least be in the government to do that.

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