This is great especially for bedridden or disabled patients who are unable to exercise, but for most of us it’s probably a good idea to 1. start HRT as you enter menopause (low estrogen makes you susceptible to osteoporosis), and 2. add strength training to get the exercise that helps keep your bones strong.

Think of what a great privilege it is to be able to exercise and stay healthy, and how it will keep you from losing that privilege (as a fracture can lead to future disability that makes exercise difficult or impossible).

Personally I like to make bread from scratch and I knead by hand instead of using a machine mixer. I always like to think how it helps my bones to do this.

can’t tell if this is a joke about how the patriarchy subdues women with antidepressants, or about how the patriarchy has created the conditions that caused her depression?

are you in Australia? 😄

(it’s cloudy and snowing where I am)

I’m not sure this is the best way to approach solving that problem, though. As a system it makes no distinction between users, gatekeeping is applied equally regardless of medical status or knowledge of the drug. I know a trans man IRL who went months without T due to communication problems between the doctors and his insurance, and he told me his joints started deteriorating after living without sex hormones in his body for so long.

Gatekeeping causes harm; lay people having easy access to and using drugs without sufficient knowledge of interactions, dose, route of administration, etc. also causes harm.

It would be nice if instead of or in addition to a short-lived prescription, there were an option to get educated and then licensed to have access to certain drugs; you could combine informed consent with medical training with the goal that patients are trusted and empowered to make their own choices once they can responsibly do so.

You see variance on this even with trans healthcare, where some providers (notably I’ve heard the VA does this) won’t allow patients to inject their own medication and patients have to come to the clinic for every injection, while plenty of other providers trust their patients to educate themselves on how to administer injectable drugs to themselves (though the patients are not always offered training to learn how, that would be nice).

If I can learn to inject myself, I can also get educated on the appropriate doses, routes of administrations, and clinical risks associated with the medication I’m taking.

I’ve had several doctors explicitly ask me to educate them about trans healthcare, so it’s not even like the doctors are particularly educated on trans healthcare anyway, and they make poor gatekeepers because of their profound ignorance.

One doctor I had even believed and said many empirically false things about trans healthcare, like the idea that starting HRT doubles you risk of suicide (it actually significantly lowers your risk, this is the reason it’s the gold standard of care for gender dysphoria and he should know this as a doctor who prescribes HRT for trans patients).

Patients usually will not know more than their doctor, but it should at least be an option for people to pursue the education deemed necessary to allow them that autonomy responsibly.

Also, for what it’s worth, access to a drug doesn’t always guarantee harm - people have plenty of unfettered access to harmful drugs in nature (like posionous nightshade plants), yet it rarely leads to abuse or misuse. It’s important we don’t mistake the problem here, which is more social and cultural than strictly about access. When grifters start exploiting young men’s insecurities to sell them testosterone replacement therapy, the context of that drug use is clearly exploitative and likely to lead to harm. There is a lack of medical basis and plenty of reasons to expect harm from TRT clinics like that. Yet trans healthcare has a broad base of evidence that it saves lives, and having access to those hormones become as crucial and necessary as the endogenous sex hormones most people take for granted in their bodies. There is a very different medical need and justification for a teenage boy who watched a TikTok video and came to believe they need TRT to be more of a man, and a trans man who needs those hormones to live.

All this to say, harm often comes in the form of combatting social problems, and that’s probably where most of the solution should be as well, rather than pretending the danger is inherent to the drug.

It’s over the counter in Thailand!

I guess I wonder why you made this post in a sfw sapphic community and not in one of the nsfw communities that might be more interested in this?

anyone notice a lot of the links are dead this year? Seems like previous campaign links were maybe accidentally copied and pasted over?

I think 43% of trans respondants said they were considering moving to another state, with only 9% actually having moved to another state.

If the state you live in is on the do not travel list or on the verge of being on that list and it’s financially possible to do so, it does seem like a good idea to move to a trans refuge state, especially somewhere semi-affordable like Minnesota.

congrats on getting out!

the 400,000 were people who moved within the US as I understand it, not including people who left the country

I’m not sure we have numbers on how many have left the country, would be interested to know and compare. I assume it’s an even smaller number than the 9% of trans respondents who moved to another state.

The year the Nazis took power in Germany the number of Jews who fled the country was around 7% of the Jewish population (which like trans people only made up around 1% of the population at the time). Before the end, half of the Jewish population had fled Germany, though.

are fraternal organizations like this even considered a union, i.e. do they represent the workers in collective bargaining?

why, how does that solve the police problem?

and don’t roll over and let the semen drip into your vagina, because anal sex can still cause pregnancy if not careful

I thought this was mostly a joke, but there really are men in the comments telling us to just buy men’s pants 🙄

I admire my partner’s seemingly infinite ability to just do whatever she needs to do - a willpower like that translates to a kind of overfunctioning that makes me look like a deadbeat by comparison, very jealous 😄

sometimes people can be a great sexual partner, but poor relationship material, maybe it’s something like that?

maybe black and white thinking describes what you are talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)

also, their worst nightmare (being forced to live as the wrong gender) is precisely what their plan is for trans people … it’s all backwards

I put the stem of thr lettuce in a small bowl of water and cover the lettuce in a loose plastic bag, it keepy my lettuce fresh and crispy for weeks… I do the same trick with my celery, leeks, green onions, and other such vegetables that would otherwise wither and wilt in the fridge.

yeah, Democrats are complicit in plenty of ways, but not just as complicit 🙄

I can’t tell if the hyperbole is just because the culture is so right wing and the assumption is that they need to shock liberals out of their stupor, but tbh I don’t think liberals even like the Democrats that much, there is plenty of hate and frustration with the Dems coming from liberals these days … at least that’s my experience