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5 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Something crazy about trans healthcare: you get denied for depression.

Gender dysphoria nearly always causes depression.

Which transition would relieve
Also, the media go on about "fast tracking".

I was referred September 2018
That's for a first appointment, it may take up to 4 before getting treatment.

With 6 months between appointments
If I'm lucky, I MIGHT get surgery before I'm 40
A friend waited 8 years in total

Fast tracking?

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Gwen loves cats and bunnies 🐇🍞🐱🐻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
6 Feb
My open offer to the #GenderCritical crowd still stands, but now with an update.

Original offer:

If you want less penises in female spaces, fund my surgery or another trans woman's surgery and prove it.

Make a donation to a gofundme and screenshot it.
Prove you don't just want trans people to suffer and that your "penises in female spaces" thing is actually your true objection by taking action to reduce that problem.
Two updates to the offer:

Antiandrogens are used to treat sexual paraphilias and to chemically castrate sex offenders, reducing sexual urges and taking away both motivation and means of future offenses.

So fund HRT for trans women without access to it.
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Gwen loves cats and bunnies 🐇🍞🐱🐻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
6 Feb


People can be given it for self administration
I covered the "chemotherapy" thing in that other thread, but basically it isn't a chemotherapy drug.

It's a GNrH agonist, it shuts down production of sex steroids, which includes testosterone - hence why it's used for androgen sensitive prostate cancer AND gender dysphoria.
Chemotherapy agents are literally toxins, a specific type of toxin called a cytotoxin.

They inhibit DNA replication, which means tumours can't grow larger.

Obviously this has nasty side effects, but it's a key tool in fighting cancer.
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Gwen loves cats and bunnies 🐇🍞🐱🐻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
5 Feb
More nonsense about trans healthcare:

Blockers are apparently bad because they're also used for cancer, or for chemical castration of sex offenders.

They're specifically used for androgen sensitive prostate cancer.
Basically, blockers block hormones (duh). For prostate cancer, lowering testosterone can help shrink the prostate and any cancerous tissue.

They are NOT some kind of chemotherapy drug and don't have the same side effects.
They are sometimes used to chemically castrate sex offenders for the same reason: lowering testosterone reduces libido and thus sexual urges.

How this makes them inherently bad when used in other conditions I don't know, though it's clever to subtly associate.
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Gwen loves cats and bunnies 🐇🍞🐱🐻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
5 Feb
Another rant about trans healthcare:

My GP is now no longer allowed to provide blood tests for me, despite knowing I'm taking HRT and knowing there's a risk of elevated prolactin levels from the antiandrogen I use (cyproterone).
The reasoning is that giving blood tests would encourage me to keep taking HRT.

Which is nonsensical, because I'll keep taking it anyway and suddenly stopping now would be a disaster for my mental health.
They used to be open to working with a private clinic.

Now they won't unless it's the NHS GIC.

I was planning to get a "legit" prescription from gendercare, but now I see absolutely no point since I'd have to keep paying not just for the meds but also for blood tests.
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Gwen loves cats and bunnies 🐇🍞🐱🐻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
5 Feb
Fun fact: I DIY my HRT meds, and the products I buy are identical to what my local pharmacy dispenses under prescription.

I'm an adult so it's too late for me as regards puberty blockers, but it'd be exactly the same.
Hormones and blockers are not controlled substances, neither are they "unlicensed". It's totally legal to buy them privately for personal use.

"Unlicensed" doesn't mean illegal either.

Strictly speaking, stuff like herbal sleeping pills containing valerian are "unlicensed".
Of course transphobes want to campaign to make hormones controlled substances now.

When they succeeded in cutting off the main chemists that issued prescriptions for GenderGP they celebrated.

Despite knowing the suffering and physical danger they were causing.
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Gwen loves cats and bunnies 🐇🍞🐱🐻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
5 Feb
Imagine if Batman joined the privy council
In our house, a way to get me to do something is to say the privy council ruled it or batman wants me to.

The combo....
Or tell me the bunnies want it
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