/lgbt/ - LGBT

why would the cashier do that

I'm currently waiting for my crypto purchase to go through so i can buy proper diy. As someone who doesn't go outside much, having to navigate around the recent EU crackdown on crypto really makes you *feel* the totality of the capitalist state.

I'm a (trans) pharmacy tech and yeah you're supposed to say the meds quietly lol, it's a literal hippa violation if other patients in line can hear you.

I guess you must pay attention to your own health and how it's being used.

I used to pick up my tr*nny prescriptions from a local South Asian owned pharmacy, and they were always chill about it

>DIY my hormones
do people actually do this? or do you mean you just follow a specific diet combined with over the counter stuff?

>>1846
Pretty much every non-androgen hormone drug is regulated lightly enough to have a grey market (though international shipments might be seized on a case-by-case basis)

>>1847
why do grey market shit if you're outside of a place that has cartoonishly oppressive anti-trans laws ?

>>1908
first waiting lists and the potential to get a shitty individual doctors. second even the best places will have you go through psychotherapy and while i don't completely disagree with the affliction angle, bourgeois psychology is a disciplinary system fully capable of robbing anyone who isn't a docile worker drone of their agency and everyone knows it.

the mere act of getting pills from a prescription medicine reseller also robs the state of power it wants to exert over the bodies of its subjects. think a moment about why customs will seize these hormones, when there isn't nearly the same need for regulation as there is for hard drugs or steroids. an implicit threat of their seizure needs to be established, because they implicitly threaten regulated markets, by existing outside of them and their associated notions about what ought to go into peoples bodies. as a marxist you should carefully think about which aims of the capitalist state this machinery serves, despite including the admittedly desireable purpose of upholding safety standards for medication.

>>1909
>even the best places will have you go through psychotherapy

ive gotten HRT in two states, one is a red state, the other is a blue state. neither one of them did any psychotherapy. they just did some blood work to see what the best dose would be, and gave me the HRT.

when i asked for progesterone they just gave it to me. when i asked to switch from pills to injections they had my needles and prescription ready to be picked up before the day was over.

I'm not sure where this is and isn't true, but y'all really need to stop saying this as if it's fact. clearly this is far from a universal thing.

>>1846
it's probably not actually DIY as in synthesizing or getting it from the source, or else I'd fear for the local equestrian population
if you know you know

>>1911
Official trans healthcare in the USA is pretty decent nowadays (though still a risk of hondosing doctors) and not a huge market for DIY rn. It probably is gonna be soon, at least in red states. Europe and Asia are probably the biggest markets for DIY rn, due to official trans healthcare still being pretty archaic and gatekept there.

>>1911
>when i asked to switch from pills to injections they had my needles and prescription
how often do you do injections, combined or monotherapy? i thought the long-lived esthers which made this practical (enanthate, undecylate) weren't available as prescriptions, because they're currently only approved in contraceptive injections combined with a strong progestin.

>>1928
once a week
i live in USA

>>1826 (OP)
>>1827
pharmacist obviously trying to draw negative attention, hoping for the possibility of a malicious person hearing it. definitely a tactic. watch out if ur trans
>ok sir
yep, that's enough proof that it was intentional and not just my hyper attention