Thanks for this article, Crip Dyke! Fortunately, in NYC, we have Callen-Lorde, but I fear the worst with the returning genocidal tyrannical regime. They want to see us *dead*.
And part of their plan for the rapture is moving us Jews to Israel. It’s just like the Nazis’ Madagascar plan but with Israel instead of Madagascar and with a theological component therein.
My husband got testosterone cream for... something. (Not that, people!) He had a bad reaction and quit soon, but he got all the refills and gave them to our FtM pal. And that was in this century!
In original packaging, of course, with the labels peeled off.
Thank you for the history lesson, CD. I had heard about the problems AIDS patients were having getting medications in the 80s and 90s. I also remember reading about folks setting up pharmacies in their kitchens to make their won version of meds for AIDS patients.
Are there Trans people and their allies creating factories to make batches of hormones or puberty blockers? At some point, someone’s stash has to run out, and they’d have to find another source, like black market or homebrew alternatives.
I'm not in the market, but you'll never run out of birth control pills and testosterone is regularly sold (illegally) in gyms. Since there are always some cis women who aren't fucking someone who can get them pregnant, as long as you're a trans person who isn't sexist, you should be able to get someone to give you some BC pills -- not all of which are suitable, but they can ask for the brand with the best fit. And since body builders will always want testosterone, guys will always have access to that.
Again, it's illegal, and I wouldn't trust any medication that didn't come in its original packaging, and lord knows this is the last thing I want. I'm not **advocating** this. I'm just saying that -- like abortion -- laws against hormone use won't end medical transitions.
I would hope BC pills never become illegal or unavailable. With this SCOTUS primed to overturn Griswold all bets are off.
I would also never trust medications not in their original package (or not repackaged from a pharmacy). But I think I could understand the desparation of those who need hormones trying to find any source.
Hell, I'm hoarding my asthma-controlling corticosteroids just in case my insurance lapses or I can't afford it for one reason or another. In this fucking environment I don't trust the next administration not to sabotage everything that's made my life bearable, so I'm making what plans I can. And that's *without* a huge segment of society actively demonizing me. The people struggling against the current of gratuitous stupidity and malevolence to be their best selves are far braver than the bigoted ideologues who hate them -- it's what keeps my belief in the promise of America alive.
I think one thing to keep in mind as well is that the people who are potentially banning trans healthcare are essentially Christian nationalists and don't care about the health and well being of trans people, let alone women or poor people or really any minority group. They don't care that banning abortions leads to more unsafe abortions. To them, people like that aren't people and they should suffer consequences up to and including death. They don't care that banning trans healthcare leads to riskier sources of hormones and suicide because to them, trans people aren't people and they should suffer the consequences up to and including death. Same principle applies to black and brown people, people with other religions... The point to them is not to make the world safer or better, it's to cause suffering for these groups so that they might become their idea of 'Christian' or die off completely, whichever comes first. And the things also is, at this point basically all mainstream media has been bought by people who basically buy into this whole framework. Of course they're going to frame these groups negatively.
I say this as a trans person. They won't erase us. They tried back on May 6th, 1933, they failed, and and they're not going to succeed this time either. We will do everything we can to thrive regardless of what the monsters think of us and try to do to wipe us from history and the world.
Christian nationalists ARE no different than Nazi's. Literally. They were capitalists, not socialists. They targeted minority groups. They restricted freedoms from everyone. They funneled wealth to a small group. Hitler was a billionaire. They are ABSOLUTELY no different than Nazi's.
Thanks for this article, Crip Dyke! Fortunately, in NYC, we have Callen-Lorde, but I fear the worst with the returning genocidal tyrannical regime. They want to see us *dead*.
I agree...but they want to see most everybody dead... while breathlessly awaiting the rapture...
And part of their plan for the rapture is moving us Jews to Israel. It’s just like the Nazis’ Madagascar plan but with Israel instead of Madagascar and with a theological component therein.
My husband got testosterone cream for... something. (Not that, people!) He had a bad reaction and quit soon, but he got all the refills and gave them to our FtM pal. And that was in this century!
In original packaging, of course, with the labels peeled off.
Thank you for the history lesson, CD. I had heard about the problems AIDS patients were having getting medications in the 80s and 90s. I also remember reading about folks setting up pharmacies in their kitchens to make their won version of meds for AIDS patients.
Are there Trans people and their allies creating factories to make batches of hormones or puberty blockers? At some point, someone’s stash has to run out, and they’d have to find another source, like black market or homebrew alternatives.
I'm not in the market, but you'll never run out of birth control pills and testosterone is regularly sold (illegally) in gyms. Since there are always some cis women who aren't fucking someone who can get them pregnant, as long as you're a trans person who isn't sexist, you should be able to get someone to give you some BC pills -- not all of which are suitable, but they can ask for the brand with the best fit. And since body builders will always want testosterone, guys will always have access to that.
Again, it's illegal, and I wouldn't trust any medication that didn't come in its original packaging, and lord knows this is the last thing I want. I'm not **advocating** this. I'm just saying that -- like abortion -- laws against hormone use won't end medical transitions.
I would hope BC pills never become illegal or unavailable. With this SCOTUS primed to overturn Griswold all bets are off.
I would also never trust medications not in their original package (or not repackaged from a pharmacy). But I think I could understand the desparation of those who need hormones trying to find any source.
Hell, I'm hoarding my asthma-controlling corticosteroids just in case my insurance lapses or I can't afford it for one reason or another. In this fucking environment I don't trust the next administration not to sabotage everything that's made my life bearable, so I'm making what plans I can. And that's *without* a huge segment of society actively demonizing me. The people struggling against the current of gratuitous stupidity and malevolence to be their best selves are far braver than the bigoted ideologues who hate them -- it's what keeps my belief in the promise of America alive.
I really appreciate the point that by reporting on a "new" thing, it erases that thing existing in the past.
Ta, CD. Great history lesson. I did not know about finding them on a bus.
I think one thing to keep in mind as well is that the people who are potentially banning trans healthcare are essentially Christian nationalists and don't care about the health and well being of trans people, let alone women or poor people or really any minority group. They don't care that banning abortions leads to more unsafe abortions. To them, people like that aren't people and they should suffer consequences up to and including death. They don't care that banning trans healthcare leads to riskier sources of hormones and suicide because to them, trans people aren't people and they should suffer the consequences up to and including death. Same principle applies to black and brown people, people with other religions... The point to them is not to make the world safer or better, it's to cause suffering for these groups so that they might become their idea of 'Christian' or die off completely, whichever comes first. And the things also is, at this point basically all mainstream media has been bought by people who basically buy into this whole framework. Of course they're going to frame these groups negatively.
I say this as a trans person. They won't erase us. They tried back on May 6th, 1933, they failed, and and they're not going to succeed this time either. We will do everything we can to thrive regardless of what the monsters think of us and try to do to wipe us from history and the world.
It's a bit of a historic irony to me as a trans woman that my birthday falls on the anniversary of the burning of the Hirschfeld library.
On the plus side, congratulations on making it to 91 years of age!
Anniversary of. Not the same day, lol. I'm only 43.
You kill my fun, Erin. You kill all of my fun.
I'll bank those well wishes for the future. :)
Exactly. Christian Nationalists are no different than Nazis in my view.
Christian nationalists ARE no different than Nazi's. Literally. They were capitalists, not socialists. They targeted minority groups. They restricted freedoms from everyone. They funneled wealth to a small group. Hitler was a billionaire. They are ABSOLUTELY no different than Nazi's.