HRT does change your appearance but so does getting full body tattooing and you can get a full body tattoo at 18 without proving to a doctor that you won’t regret it so like…
…maybe HRT being hard to access is actually about transphobia…
*foaming at the mouth while reblogging*
Cis women can get a boob job at 18 without two notes from a therapist
I see all the notes on this with people being all “it’s a serious medication, of course you need to get doctor approval for your own health”; no guys, this is specifically about the psych eval requirement that many doctors with outdated info and mindsets still stand by. That’s not the same thing as the medical eval. Stop with the damn “well your tattoo artist needs to make sure you aren’t allergic to the inks”, that’s not what this is about.
This. Making sure that HRT won’t trigger or aggravate some kind of preexisting condition – just the way a responsible doctor would check known risk factors before ANY major medical treatment – is a very different thing from “you have to prove that you really REALLY want this, and that you want it for the RIGHT REASONS (as determined by us), and that no matter what life pulls on you in the next 60 years or what changes you go through, this is the one decision you will never regret.”
Anyone in those notes wanna tell me the last time getting a prescription required you to go to your GP, who referred you to a social worker, who referred you to a therapist, who made you read (out loud!) and sign off on every single paragraph of a five-page document, mostly phrased in the most alarmist and scary way possible and then referred you to a psychiatrist who made you read (out loud!) and sign off on every single paragraph of the same document, and then gave you a referral to a specialist who wanted a complete medical history and full-body exam, in a process taking about a week of actual work and a year of calendar time?
Because that’s what I had to do for HRT, and my case was an easy one in a place that’s actively trying to eliminate gatekeeping.
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