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I am wholely ignorant, but I am apprehensive to the idea that we'd be giving medical advice to one another. It seems like an avenue in which someone could get hurt. Is there some way to avoid that in a DIY comm?
DIYing medical care is often less harmful than not getting any medical care at all!
Or getting medical care from uninformed “professionals” who don’t care enough to learn ~~and casually prescribe you 50 mg/day cyproterone acetate~~.
average day in slavic shithole
Also still happens with roughly half of German endos who treat trans people in the first place. Some of the handful of competent ones here have literally thousands of trans patients bc the situation is so shit.
My endo was the only endo in the entire country that would treat trans people and they didn’t know shit. Not doing DIY is actually the harmful route in these conditions.
You don't need to trust what a stranger has to say about HRT. Knowledge comes from research, which they can just share with you.
edit: and by the way, this is what the "profession" of endocrinology is hiring:
My friend, the waiting lists for trans healthcare in the UK are 10 years, and frankly even if you get an appointment that doesn't mean care now that the entire system has been hobbled by the terfs in government.
I think you need to understand that DIY is the ONLY healthcare that exists for many trans people. It is that or dying, literally dying.
The transdiy subreddit has a huge number of british users.
also just cant get it at all if you are non-binary lol
we aren't recognized
jfc "playing doctor", go out there and spend just one doctor's appointment as a trans person in a structurally transphobic healthcare system before you run your mouth like that.
They did surgery on a grape. Memeing my way into an elective surgery with the help of the internet vastly improved my life and has for countless others. There was literally no way for me to get the surgery I needed through the standard healthcare system.
First off, if you acknowledge you haven't looked into it at all... Maybe do that before commenting. Not to be mean just like, you would genuinely have a lot more insight on the topic if you did
But also beyond the great answers others have given, I think it's very important to note that providing a structured space for such conversations to happen in actually enhances safety over the current status quo, which is that they still happen but in a more ad-hoc fashion. It allows people to gather reliable sources in one place and refer back to previous posts/stickies easier than if these discussions are happening in the mega or in c/traa. So unless you're proposing banning discussion of DIY, which I doubt, it should be compared against what is happening now not a theoretical "no possible harm" scenario