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.
Anyone who has had orchidectomy or vaginoplasty no longer has a natural source of sex steroids, the absence of sex steroids leads to serious physical and mental health issues.
Including osteoporosis.
That myth that transition will cause trans people to end up in wheelchairs from losing bone density - they wanted to make it true.
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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.
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.
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.