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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in Final HRT update. With the Trump admin, I'm not transitioning any more and don't intend to start again. (cw - trans genocide, bummer post) (probably should have been in venting) (bad post maybe) by twovests

Totally achievable goals include banning HRT. By desisting now, I'm able to not be a strain on HRT supplies in the future.

I didn't want to comment on the rest of this because you have to make the right choice for yourself, but this in particular, well this is kind of talking like there's a fixed supply of HRT. But HRT is a market and if more people use it more of it will be produced; just like more people doing drugs results not in less drugs going around, but rather more drugs being moved. It's obviously different in important ways, BUT, by using them you're not denying someone else them except on a very short timescale.

So, if your main reasons are you don't want to deal with discrimination that makes total sense and while it bums me out whenever I hear a person I care about talk like that it's legit, you gotta stay safe.

But if you're doing it because you're worried you're gonna use up resources others could use, then I would say no, that's wrong, it's not a zero sum game that way.

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twovests OP wrote

Totally fair, and I roughly agree on you. The problem is that all of these points are ones which I have to force myself not to qualify with all the details, lest I make each post a collection of 1000 essays.

This "HRT can be banned and I'd be a strain on the local DIY scene" is a <1% weight worry for me. Even "HRT can be banned" maybe weights for 1% of my concerns.

This is one of the few regards where transfem people have it much easier. Estrogen and progesterone aren't controlled substances like testosterone is, and currently are very easy to source online.

For testosterone, I'm aware of no DIY scene within 200 miles (but I hope that is just good opsec). All the calculus I know about is about prescriptions and stockpiles. The three other people who I know who are desisting or detransitioning are trans guys.

For estrogenizing hormones and antiandrogens, it flows pretty readily. It'll flow as long as horses pee, and I can't even see the worst excesses of a fascist regime also doing a horse genocide. The overseas sources of feminizing HRT dwarf my local DIY scene, and my DIY scene dwarfs the needs of the people taking feminizing hormones inside of it.

So, it's a "maybe 1%" thing, but there are just so many 1% worries alongside the big-ticket worries.

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