Since my beloved activated my bat-signal, I'm going to go through this video and spotlight the egregious things I see.
This is about six minutes in: an elision of monotherapy E, which suppresses T well and is achievable on gel or injections. Video does not mention gel.
This is about six minutes in: an elision of monotherapy E, which suppresses T well and is achievable on gel or injections. Video does not mention gel.
https://twitter.com/Katrafiy/status/1795796692538741203
(If anyone knows more about this topic than I do and knows whether a high enough oral dose can also suppress T, please correct me.)
Video has also mentioned that WPATH "doesn't recommend progesterone", and is about to elaborate on why. This should be fun.
Video has also mentioned that WPATH "doesn't recommend progesterone", and is about to elaborate on why. This should be fun.
Basically, "progesterone causes blood clots". Then advice to talk to one's doctor, without discussing the ways in which doctors frequently under-dose and are neglectful towards trans patients.
Video also mentions spiro as the most common T-blocker.
Video also mentions spiro as the most common T-blocker.
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Yeah I think this nonsense speaks for itself.
Yeah I think this nonsense speaks for itself.
Why exactly does this video think it's appropriate to stop disseminating (mis)information on HRT to suddenly lecture trans women about how we describe the effects of going through hormonal changes and a second puberty?
Fuck you, actually!
Fuck you, actually!
Amazing to just drop this with no introspection. Gleefully admitting that the writer of the video has no personal experience with oestrogen HRT, but not feeling the need to correct that. (Lecturing trans women to not be sexist was crucial, however.)
???
Monotherapy E exists. Why was this video made seemingly without consulting trans women familiar with the range of treatments, and failing that, without having done any research? There's plenty of community resources if one cares to look.
Monotherapy E exists. Why was this video made seemingly without consulting trans women familiar with the range of treatments, and failing that, without having done any research? There's plenty of community resources if one cares to look.
Genuinely at a loss for words here.
We're in the "non-binary HRT" section, and this is genuinely harmful and dangerous advice to be giving people.
We're in the "non-binary HRT" section, and this is genuinely harmful and dangerous advice to be giving people.
New Turing Test just dropped--have you heard of Alan Turing and do you understand why recommending taking spiro without E in your "HRT information" video is a bad fucking idea?
@womanofkemay was kind enough to point out to me that the source for this claim, specifically, is from the second study in this list, which is PENDING REVISION.
@womanofkemay I'm impressed that despite repeatedly referencing the current transphobic and moral panic-ridden political climate, this video still goes out of its way to reify the denaturalizing and dehumanizing language ("medicalized") that trans healthcare is stigmatized through.
@womanofkemay No surprise: I fucking hate this. It reproduces the orientalizing anthropological framing that sets "enlightened (unmedicated) third sexes" against "Western-imperialist medicalized transsexuals" without accounting for nuances, like those very people availing of modern healthcare!
@womanofkemay This is a short reproduction of Nanda's line in "Gender Diversity" that Serano criticized in "Whipping Girl", a framing that seems to pervade not just queer theory and academia regarding transsexuality, but also modern Western queer discourses, instrumentalizing "Third-Sexes".
@womanofkemay Stop doing orientalism to reify transmisogyny, and also this HRT informational vid should have consulted people who are more familiar with oestrogen HRTs, or failing that, NOT CITED A NON-PEER-REVIEWED PAPER THAT IS PENDING REVISION.
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