#and the consequences if people don't have consistent/reliable *access* to the meds they need | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

iridescentoracle · 9 months ago

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The thing that really gets me about the "but you'll have to be on medication for the rest of your life!!" argument is like. well. yeah? Sometimes you have a condition that doesn't have a cure, but there's medication that will mitigate your symptoms so you can live a happy, normal life as long as you keep taking the medication forever, and it's mildly inconvenient but the results are more than worth the effort. Like, big whoop, I've got hayfever too.

calling trans people "forever patients" or w/e says a lot about how transphobes view disabled people as well, like yeah some people need medical intervention to live or to not kill themselves and sometimes they will need that care for the rest of their lives, sorry i guess

#like yes allergy meds are in my experience pretty easy to acquire and my understanding of HRT is that that is. not usually the case #but i've never seen anyone describing the ''but you'll be on meds FOREVER'' argument #as being about the difficulties with our current pharmaceutical system #and the consequences if people don't have consistent/reliable *access* to the meds they need #so. like. oh no how terrible people might be faced with a future of taking meds forever #truly such a terrible fate. kind of like the one i was faced with at age 14 because my hayfever was so bad i could barely function #like idk man there's a lot of flaws with the arguments OP is talking about #and the transphobia + underlying ableism are obviously the real problems but this is the bit i never see anyone else bring up #and it just feels so *stupid*#like have these people just. never met anyone with allergies?#transphobia #ableism #medication

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