Transfem
A community for transfeminine people and experiences.
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This community is supportive of DIY HRT. Unsolicited medical advice or caution being given to people on DIY will result in moderator action.
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Some helpful links:
- The Gender Dysphoria Bible // In depth explanation of the different types of gender dysphoria.
- Trans Voice Help // A community here on blahaj.zone for voice training.
- LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory // A directory of LGBTQ+ accepting Healthcare providers.
- Trans Resistance Network // A US-based mutual aid organization to help trans people facing state violence and legal discrimination.
- TLDEF's Trans Health Project // Advice about insurance claims for gender affirming healthcare and procedures.
- TransLifeLine's ID change Library // A comprehensive guide to changing your name on any US legal document.
Support Hotlines:
- The Trevor Project // Web chat, phone call, and text message LGBTQ+ support hotline.
- TransLifeLine // A US/Canada LGBTQ+ phone support hotline service. The US line has Spanish support.
- LGBT Youthline.ca // A Canadian LGBT hotline support service with phone call and web chat support. (4pm - 9:30pm EST)
- 988lifeline // A US only Crisis hotline with phone call, text and web chat support. Dedicated staff for LGBTQIA+ youth 24/7 on phone service, 3pm to 2am EST for text and web chat.
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Since your body (almost certainly) produces estrogen already, your best bet is to see a doctor and get blood labs to check your estrogen levels to see if they're too low and move forward from there.
I think you might be making some bad assumptions about the role in estrogen in helping you feel more feminine - it's entirely possible your body already is producing enough estrogen, and taking DIY estrogen will not only not help, but could cause negative symptoms for you.
Applying what the transfem community is doing to suppress the production of testosterone from their testes, and to supply the estrogen their body is not producing, to yourself is not likely to give you the results you want.
If you have already completed blood labs and know you have too little estrogen, and you are struggling to get HRT as a cis person, I could understanding turning to DIY, but as I understand it, the gatekeeping for HRT for cis people with various health complaints (PCOS, menopause, etc.) is nothing like that for trans HRT in the UK - you shouldn't be seeking care through GenderGP (which is specifically for trans folks) if you're assigned female at birth and looking for estrogen replacement therapy, you just need to see a normal endocrinologist or gynecologist who will be happy to provide you with an estrogen Rx if your estrogen levels are actually low. It should be affordable and the wait shouldn't be crazy (right now the wait time trans youth face is like 25 years ... it's basically just a complete lack of access to care).
idk if that was stated clearly in the other thread:
even so we talk about it all rhe time, hrt is not a trans thing. the instructions for my medication assume i am nothing but cis. it's off-label use. (even though the problem is the same, i suffer from low E levels. but sexism.)
hrt is for everyone but trans ppl it seems. at least that's the public discussion. unforch sometimes it becomes law too.
yeah, that's unfortunately true - cis people are not gatekept to receive the very same procedures and prescriptions trans people have to jump through hoops for