Way too many people fall for the misconception that the law always equals morality, therefore anyone breaking the law, even an unjust one, must be a bad person. And of course bad people always deserve to be punished and dehumanized.
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For the uneducated: what is DIY HRT?
edit: ty for the explanations!
Its when you do HRT without a medical professional. This means that people buy (often through the gray/black market) and administer their hormones themselves and monitoring the hormone levels by themselves It may sound like something that is very sketchy and dangerous, but it is not as bad as it sounds. There are lots of high quality ressources out there that allow you to find out everything you need in order to safely do HRT (some additional ressource will be linked below). The biggest problem is that it is quite sketchy to buy hormones through the gray market with crypto from some person that you have to trust with not fucking up your hormones, but there is also quite a big network of organizations testing the samples from known producers. Lots of producers also provide lab tests by themselves. Additionally there are big communities around DIY HRT (e.g. Reddit has a very big community around DIY HRT) and if contaminated doses appear, than this spreads quite fast in the community. So far I am not aware of any bigger scale of contaminated or bad batches of DIY HRT, that came from reputable sellers.
Something that should also be considered, that often enough medical professionals also dont know that much about HRT, which often leads to unoptimal or straight up dangerous dosages, which means that in some cases its literally much more safe to do HRT on your own means than by trusting an untrained doctor that gives you ineffective and straight up dangerous dosages.
For people who want to consider taking estrogen I can highly advice visiting https://transfemscience.org/. It is the best website I know if you want to gather a fundamental understanding of how HRT works and what you need to watch out for.
https://diyhrt.info/ also has some great ressources and https://transharmreduction.org/ is very active in providing harm reduction through testing of HRT medications and providing guides for various things like how to inject medications or on blood tests (very important if you want to do DIY HRT).
to add to the websites you listed, pghrt.diy is a linear guide to transfem hrt that is pretty easy to read imo. beware that it is very opinionated, but that can be good if you’re the type of person who can get easily overwhelmed with too much info like i am. it was invaluable to me starting hrt.
also, valerie.vg (formerly diyhrt.market) contains up-to-date info about what suppliers of transfem hrt are in stock, their prices, links to reviews of their stuff… when you’re ready to order, look here first to find who to buy from.
also, the tor browser. diy estrogen is not a crime in most places, but you’ve seen how the state treats us… so, act accordingly. many diy suppliers (and valerie.vg) have onion sites too, i recommend you use those, they’re way harder to shut down
finally, this comment has been very transfem-focused, because that’s who i am, and i don’t know much about transmasc diy hrt. if someone does, pleasepleaseplease reply here to share so we can better help our brothers & siblings out!
Do-it-yourself Hormone Replacement Therapy. For people who get fed up with the byzantine systems setup to discourage and humiliate them and simply take matters into their own hands. What's extra enraging is that, as a cis male, I could walk into my doctor's office tomorrow and come out with a scrip for gender affirming hormone treatment with minimal questions.
Do it yourself hormone replacement therapy.
People should have access to a health professional to help then through this, but it's not always the case.
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