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Do people ever go from prescription to DIY HRT?

I just did after more than two years on prescription HRT and almost 3 years of presenting fem in public, partially because i want to be prepared if trans rights get rolled back in my country, partially because injections are extremely hard to get a prescription for around here and i'm tired of gel and partially because of an ideological commitment to being a gender outlaw. Also ngl there's just something exciting about sticking a needle in my leg and shooting up hormones. Obviously YMMV on this, i have friends who have a pronounced fear of needles and needed a ton of emotional support when they started injecting, but they still pulled it off.

I have a lot of friends who went from prescription to DIY for similar reasons, it actually seems more common in my circle than the other way around. I mean, most trans people i know have at some point DIYed for at least a few days when they couldn't refill a script on time and a friend helped them out with a bottle of gel or a few pills they had left over. I find it very rare that people who are actually part of an IRL trans community and transition hormonally never have some brush with DIY culture. It's almost unavoidable simply as a safety net.

I'm still unsure if i will tell my endo about it, i have no idea if she supports DIY, but so far i'm very happy with the results. I've been on HRT long enough to know what the range of my levels on gel + CPA looked like, gel can vary more than injections and i've been anywhere from 90 to 300 ug/ml on the same dose, interval and test time. So when i get new measurements in a month, it will be easy for me to compare. But i do want that as a control measure. Honestly wish i could DIY the blood testing as well.

Matt is correct, the K is not silent. You can hear the correct pronunciation in the chorus of the classic worker song Auf, Auf zum Kampf (starting at 0:29).

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Happy trans people, what’s your secret??

Other trans people. Like, irl, not some online shit.

I wouldn't call it "winning" when your invasion leads to nothing but state collapse, formation of ISIS and US troops getting merced by IEDs. Regional instability may be an outcome the US can live with, but it wasn't the military goal of the invasion, they wanted to turn Iraq into a regional ally like postwar Germany and they didn't come anywhere close to that.

Yanqi devils have learned nothing from not winning a single boots on the ground war since 1945.

why do i have to live in such an absolute clown timeline

Never understood why people needed bipolar of all things as an explanation for a petit bourgeois celebrity turning full fash.

btw if some redditor dingus goes all "cool anecdotal evidence there", fuck you, you pedantic dork, your opinion doesn't matter

From a cursory glance, the article completely fails to explain what it means by "sex". Yes, there's differences in the cardiovascular health of men and women, but why? People tend to jump to the conclusion that it's something you are born with and that it is therefor tied to your AGAB, because they have the nonensical notion that "biological sex" is one reified, essentialist, concrete thing when it actually isn't.

The gender-specific symptoms the article describes are something that, like many other organic functions, can change within a matter of weeks when somebody goes on HRT. I used to have all the "chest-clutching man" symptoms of arterial hypertension and when i got on estrogen and anti-androgens, within less than a month they aligned with the "more diffuse" set of symptoms reported by women (which are actually not more diffuse at all, i feel the neck pain and shortness of breath on estrogen just as much as i felt the stabby pain on testosterone - doctors just tend to not recognize these symptoms). They also lessened a lot because a circulatory system on T is more suceptible to coronary heart disease than one on E.

Biological sex isn't a monolith and it is not immutable. People need to get that fact into their heads.