#DIY HRT

[genderqueerdykes]

I’m currently in the US and was wondering if you have any idea about how I might potentially diy hrt

hey great question, this got asked very recently and fortunately i was sent a good youtube video about it! i've linked the original ask, as well as the video & a backup in case it goes down!

this video will be way more informative than i could be as i haven't had to DIY my HRT fortunately. if you need any more info feel free to come back and we'll try to get whatever we can for you!

[transgirl-gaming-thoughts]

Could really really use some money for groceries, anything helps ♥

Help a trans girl pay for HRT and monthly expenses

I've made a few posts like this asking for tips on my Ko-fi to help with rent and other expenses, and that's still something I need help with as I look for work opportunities. I'm also starting on HRT, and need money to refill that every few months. It runs me roughly $100 each supply, and I want to stockpile if I can. If even just a few people can donate $5 each I'll be able to keep that up. If you're able and willing to help me out, please please please donate to my Ko-fi page! Every dollar means the world to me, and gets me one step closer to my goals!

Thank you everyone in advance for your donations and reblogs 🫶 I love you all

https://ko-fi.com/kantobound

[witchytakes]

Come to Brazil

I'm being honest here, if you're trans and are from US/UK or any country that is being bad on trans rights, please come to Brazil

here our HRT can be public funded, you can change your legal name and gender by self ID and get a new birth certificate on 2 weeks by just paying some fees, even if you consider too much gatekeeping to get you HRT, at least the feminizing HRT can be get through pharmacies, without prescription (but you would need to know how to dose), same for blood tests while you can do privately HRT is damn cheap and we also have a trans politician that is being one of the main faces of left politics here, she's fighting for workers rights, reproductive rights and trans rights

The country is far from perfect on trans rights and many more things, but honestly it's less worse than the transphobic cesspoll that UK/US has become

[midwesttranssurvivalcollective]

if you’re a trans kid, please know there are trans adults out here (like us!) who will fight for you, fight to keep you alive, and fight to ensure that you can transition however you want whenever you want. there is NOTHING wrong with wanting or needing to transition medically as a minor. we will navigate ‘laws’ as they come but for us, laws are meaningless compared to our commitment to do whatever we need to do in order for trans kids to survive. you deserve a childhood as your true self, you deserve to be angry! you deserve to demand adults in your life support you in the way you need to be supported, and to refuse anything less. and we are always here to be the trans adults you might need in your corner.

(while the point of all this political bullshit is to make us feel so afraid we feel helpless, and we need to resist the temptation to doomscroll and lose hope - it’s also real that shit is scary right now.)

[selfoftheseus]

Has anyone made a Forcemasc post like this yet

[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.

[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.”

[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.

[trans-axolotl]

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

[campbellbeans]

given recent events, the NHS deciding to conveniently "lose" my entire medical record and attempting to restart my entire transistion progress at a different GIC is especially frustrating anyways:

[genderqueerdykes]

Hey I remembered that y'all had asked about DIY HRT and Lily Alexandre posted a video just yesterday with a pseudo guide to how to do it safely.

https://youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc?si=b2PWkNHvpvZE-g65

Please if you check out this video, download it and rip it as well. Who knows how long we'll have access to it.

holy shit this is awesome, thank you so much!!!!!!

this is the ONLY way certain people can access HRT and i want to make sure those individuals stay as safe as possible. while it's best to try to get it through a medical provider when and where you can, not everyone has this option. thank you so much.

as suggested, download this video. i have downloaded a copy. if the video does go down, i will be happy to find ways to get it to people who need it. preserve this information. nobody deserves to go without lifesaving hormones.

EDIT: here is a backed up version, lmk if there's any issues with the link:

[deadeyedfae]

For the 3rd time, hopfully the last time 💜

[catsonja]

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

[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!