#DIY HRT

[girlsackthing]

I got two months worth, but I'm not able to afford any more. If anyone wants to help a trans woman out, I would really appreciate it.

My cashapp is $IrisWatson11037

Hey, for no reason in particular, could anyone. elp a trans woman find a good source to find bitcoin? I need to pay for something, but bitcoin is all they accept.

[selfoftheseus]

Has anyone made a Forcemasc post like this yet

[michaelmilkers]

in 2004 george w bush won the presidential election and promised in his acceptance speech to codify a federal ban on gay marriage. 30 states passed bans on gay marriage in the wake of his re-election. and then they fell. one by one by one. it has to get worse before it gets better.

queers. trans people especially. our attitude for the next decade has to be “we’re not fucking scared of you”. do you understand? this has always been at the core of who we are and what we do. we fucking move. we take up space or carve out our own with our bare hands. we take care of us.

do you know the other queers in your neighborhood? do you know who you can call at a bad time? do you know whose house you can crash at? do you know where you can go for a free meal? do you know where you can bring meals to the hungry? do you know the LGBT resources available in your area? do you know the informed consent clinics in your area?

do you know how DIY HRT works? do you know and have friends who don’t? do you know our history? have you read the works of james baldwin and leslie feinberg? are you equipped with knowledge about the forces that work against us? do you understand dialectical materialism? do you know what to say if stopped by the police? do you know what good opsec is? are your legal documents in order? do you know how to get them in order?

scream, cry, rot in your bed, do whatever you need to do to process this, then find something to do. do not fall into despair. in the face of extermination say “fuck you.”

[queerautism]

We're back at this being the entirety of the advice being given for Testosterone DIY HRT in a bunch of current threads about it. Genuinely sick of this.

And it's very dismissive of the legal risk as well, which is significant for many marginalised people in the US, like POC who already get disproportionately targeted by the cops.

[sorceress-foxgirl-ariel]

please does anyone know a place to get diy hrt in the eu. my previous delivery got taken by customs

please

rb for reach?

[queeranarchism]

I'm seeing a worrying post about single/multi-use HRT vials going around. Please read this Queer Doc article instead.

The most important parts of this article are:

Check the ingredients. Vials without preservatives are intended to be thrown out after 1 use. Vials with preservatives are intended to be thrown out after 28 days.

Wash your hands, clean the table and disinfect injection surfaces (vial stopper, your injection site.)

Don’t let the needle or the rubber stopper of the vial touch contaminated surfaces.

Don’t re-use needles.

I would like to add:

In Europe you may also get single-use vials that are completely glass with a top that needs to be broken to access the medication. There is NO safe way to use these for multi-dosing.

Within the DIY community, you will find larger vials that people use for months. This caries extra risk but unfortunately a lot of people don't have much choice. Be extra diligent about hygiene and safety if you re-use vials for longer, understand that you've got more risk and do not do it if you are immunocompromised. Please consider changing your vial every 4 months if at all possible.

If you do get an infection you need to go to a doctor. Seriously. An infection deeper under the skin can not work itself to the surface and has a risk of entering the blood stream and becoming sepsis. This can kill you. Trans people will tell you that they had an infection and they were fine. They were lucky. You may be unlucky. Go to a doctor.

Normal injections often cause pain and a warm bump or hard spot at the injection site, with symptoms increasing during the first 24 hours and gradually getting less after that. Symptoms of infection are: pain, heat or a bump that continue to increase after 48 hour, oozing of liquid from the injection site hours/days after injection, fever, a rash spreading from the injection sight. If you get these symptoms go to a doctor.

Store your injection bottles, packaged syringes and needles in a dry, clean location, keep them away from food items. The packaging isn't fool-proof. If there is dirt on the package, do not trust the inside of the package. If the package is broken, do not trust the inside of the package.

Check the ingredients of your vial for allergies. Injections are oil-based and that oil can be peanut-oil, soy-oil and other things that people might have an allergic reaction to. If you have allergies, know which oil you're putting into your body.

[chrissy-kaos]

So I’ve been getting a lot of messages about HRT and the surgeries I’ve had. Please continue asking! I’m happy to answer any questions you have!

First and foremost I’ve been on HRT for 4 years. I’m on estradiol injections, spiro and progesterone.

So the number one question I get is are my boobs real? The answer is yes and no. I had grown about a B cup. I wasn’t satisfied with that. So I chose to get breast augmentation. I got 440cc cohesive gel implants under the muscle. With my previous growth that put me at a D cup. I highly recommend breast augmentation for any one struggling with chest dysphoria. It works wonders.

The second question I get is where did I get FFS(facial feminization surgery) and what did I get done. The answer to this nothing. I have not had FFS. This is my natural face. Take it or leave it. I might possibly get it in the future but rn I have no plans.

Third is if I’ve had bottom surgery or not. The answer to that is no. I keep getting ask how do I get so flat in the front without having bottom surgery. I’m just really good at tucking. I try very hard to keep it flat. I have an astronomical amount of bottom dysphoria so for me I have to be tucked always. But hopefully by the end of this year I should have bottom surgery and I’ll be a very happy girl!

With that said everything else is natural besides my boobs. I have not had any other surgeries. I just work hard and put max effort into my appearance and body.

Your transition is what you make it. The effort you put in will determine the results. Tho keep in mind everyone is different. There is no right way or wrong way to transition.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion and answers some questions! I just want to thank everyone for your support and you all mean so much to me! 🖤

[trans-axolotl]

would people be interested in a post about DIY hrt from a harm reduction perspective

[midwesttranssurvivalcollective]

diy hrt: how to safely search & order online

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ONLINE RELATING TO DIY read this <3

as many institutions seem to be already complying in advance and without resistance to gender affirming care bans (eye roll) i wanted to back into posting on here about accessing diy t.

first of all, stop using Google as your search engine. google search histories HAVE ALREADY been used in court, meaning law enforcement could request your search history and use it against you. incognito browsers do not actually give you any meaninful privacy either.

here's your mini digital security checklist:

-download TOR (aka the onion router) a free, privacy-focused browser. it's legit, it's used by many, many people for many different reasons. it has important features that help keep you more private online - their webpage has a great description of how it works.

-download a good VPN. (no VPN you've seen advertised in a youtube video will actually be good.) often they require payment, for a free one the ProtonVPN is fine. as long as you're in a country where usage of TOR is common it's less of a big deal, but still good. launch your VPN before launching TOR.

-while on TOR and your VPN, create a private email. ProtonMail is fine, there are other options if you want to look more deeply. only access this email through TOR, and create a very strong password. when you're shopping for your diy, you'll need to create an account with an email, so use this email for that and not for other things.

-get some bitcoin. it's annoying especially when that pay with paypal/bank transfer/credit card option is so easy, but it's really worth it. we go way into depth about this in the guide but the more familiar you get with using crypto for privacy, the more protected you can be when making purchases online.

the guide in our pinned post has more info including lots of places to look for different btc, mail, vpn, and other privacy services. and add on if you have other digisec checklist items!!

[catsonja]

5 months on Estrogen will make a Girl happier than ever at 32 years old

[queerautism]

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@TownTattle on twitter: Susanna Rustin is apparently the Guardian journalist approaching trans people for an interview about DIY.

She’s a card-carrying TERF. Do not engage with her.

[quinnhills]

🚨🚨🚨

Idaho's ban on gender-affirming care for all trans and non-binary people takes effect tomorrow

Lives have been and will be lost because of anti-trans legislation

Please share these resources to get folks the care they need:

[gouinisme]

i dont need this but someone else might.

[taliabhattwrites]

Less Fearmongering about Testosterone, Please, Or: There is no "Boy HRT"/"Girl HRT" Dichotomy

Hello folks, I'm a trans woman and I'm on testosterone gel.

As an immigrant to a regime that is currently setting trans standards of care on fire, there is no way I can acquire any of the drugs I need to put in my body through the official channels. I've been on E monotherapy (weekly injections, no T-blocker, works out really cheap and I have a few years' worth stockpiled) for a while now, and started T-gel about a year ago.

We initially grabbed it because my wife was interested in microdosing and I decided to do so with her (though she's on injections now). Most feminizing HRT regimes nuke our T levels to lower than the healthy range for cis women, and that frankly isn't good and can lead to various health issues. T is, ultimately, just a hormone, and even if I had too much of it in the past, I still need some of it to be healthy. One noticeable effect for me is that it's helped a lot with my energy levels.

In terms of acquisition, T is actually relatively abundant compared to E because a lot of cis men buy and take steroids, while most cis women who need E are just getting it prescribed by their doctors without much fuss. Our community is the only one that really has a need for E-compounders, while the population of people who consume steroids is way higher.

Funnily, our biggest challenge in acquiring the gel was just finding a forum that would point us to a gel supplier instead of just insisting that "Gel doesn't lead to enough gains, bro! Here just buy these injections." All very well-intentioned advice, of course, but that was very much not my goal and not what I needed.

Where I am, it's legal to purchase and own T, just not to sell it. T possession is not particularly harshly cracked down upon, given that its use amongst a certain crowd is basically an open secret. Gauge your level of risk but ultimately, the official policy on trans existence is discouraging transition and making it harder for us to be able to change our sex. A friend from Germany showed me this extract that explicitly advocates for therapy to dissuade bodily transition:

It's from the guidelines for transition-related care by the association of German health insurances!

If you can get it from a doctor, good. Do that and don't forget you'll constantly have to advocate for yourself. Even if you can, however, you should frankly have your back-up options sorted out, because we live in times increasingly hostile to transitional care, and we all need to have fallbacks.

Maybe the world will eventually become less trans-eliminationist, but in the meantime, transition is always going to carry with it a certain level of risk. All I can really advise is to take charge of your own bodily autonomy, to decide how you want to shape your sex, and if you feel like you can't currently do that, to start making plans for when you eventually can. That kept me going for five years in the closet, and eventually paid off.

Good luck, and death before detransition.

[elierlick]

The Guardian DIY HRT hit piece finally came out and there's something inspirational about it. It's not the article itself. Our community came together over the past month to warn one another not to speak with them - and they couldn't find a single interviewee doing DIY!

[midwesttranssurvivalcollective]

collective guide to diy-ing t now up!

collective guide to diy t

link to share: https://pad.riseup.net/p/r.e779ba66afa01a125fefa847d1cafb04

an in-progress guide covering everything from what is diy testosterone, what’s the legality, what are the risks, how do you find it, how do you pay for it securely online, digital security and shipping security 101, how to dose and inject, how to get blood tests, and probably more!

if you have questions or want to contribute to this just shoot us an email :) and please share