Anti-trans hate groups are petitioning the FDA for a registry targeting trans women to "crack down" on transition (Link)
"The FDA has been petitioned to implement a set of policies that, if taken up, would create a federal registry of trans women, federalize anti-trans misinformation, and fast track a pathway to criminalizing estrogen use in many contexts where it is currently legal."
"A policy petition cosigned by 15 anti-trans organizations, dozens of doctors and researchers, and others, was addressed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The petition document called for registries of anyone who uses estrogen as a cross-sex hormone, a restriction that falls almost exclusively on trans women."
The policy petition heavily parallels what the Bureau of Prisons has set forward in their recent policy changes attacking transgender inmates.
Particularly with the approach to handling gender dysphoria.
There is no distinction between children or adults, this will affect all transfeminine individuals regardless of age.
I want to explicitly acknowledge here that this would put estrogen under a higher control and surveillance than testosterone currently is as a controlled substance, and this could like many other changes set a precedent for restricting rights and access for the community as a whole given the focus on specifically estrogen being used as a "cross-sex hormone."
All of these recommendations together would heavily survey and control trans women in as many ways as they can, while also looking to criminalize DIY HRT.
"All of them combined would create a system to monitor the physical and mental health of every transitioning trans woman in the country, and create a list of all of them in the process while potentially making it illegal to DIY."
"The most concerning set of recommendations would be done through the use of a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) on the use and distribution of estrogen.
An REMS is a common way to monitor drugs which have a potential to be abused, but which are still accessible to patients under limited conditions."
This petition also wishes to place estrogen onto the FDA's Adverse Events Reporting System, a part of post-market surveillance.
"Mandate Enhanced Adverse Event Reporting: In addition to a robust REMS, establish a formal system for rigorous post-market surveillance of this off-label use, issue guidance to clinicians on their obligation to report all serious adverse events to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), and require manufacturers to establish a patient registry as part of a REMS to capture real-world safety data."
This database is publicly available, and there are concerns of this system being abused as the VAERS database had been by anti-vaxxers to fear monger, and these databases are all of self-reported information, and that includes information submitted long after an event that could have no correlation whatsoever.
"As it happens, the form for reporting an adverse health event to FAERS has no requirement that the person filling it out provide any identifying information whatsoever. In other words, anyone can claim to be anyone else. You could even falsely claim to be the trans woman suffering the ‘adverse effect’ in question, and the FDA would have no choice but to leave it up."
Further quotes from the article,
"The document explicitly suggests “the Finnish model” over the informed consent model used for adults in most of the United States."
"Finnish transmedicalism is notable for not only asking invasive questions, mandating invasive psychotherapy, and otherwise using clinical cover to abuse aspiring transsexuals (people who want to transition medically) to limit the number of practicing transsexuals (people who do transition medically), but also for assigning teenagers ‘homework’ that included masturbation and forcing them to tell doctors about their sexual fantasies."
"Under transmedicalist regimes, unwillingness to comply with such invasive requirements can mean being barred from medical transition."
The goal is to make the process as long, and as difficult as possible to prevent transition.
"They call for mandatory screening of a patient's mental and psychological health as a mandatory check before any estrogen is prescribed, and recommend that this be done by a mental health provider, rather than the patient’s primary care provider."
"To do this, they allege harm based on the co-occurrence of transsexuality and autism."
"The language of the document says that being autistic makes it harder to diagnose if someone has a “persistent, identity-based gender dysphoria”. It also claims that a patient being autistic casts doubt on their ability to provide informed consent for transition."
There is a lot of parts to this petition, each and every single one being more insidious than an outright ban, this is increasingly scary for the future under a regime seeking to remove transgender people from public life.
It is so important now more than ever, to fight back in what ways we still can, whether locally or not there are thousands upon thousands of lives being put on the line as changes like this continue to be pushed through.
You can comment on the petition, make your voice heard, drown out these transphobic pieces of shit and medical misinformation. (Link)
You can comment anonymously.
As per my last post on news like this I will be providing these links, I also encourage people to see what resources you may have locally, and what you can do locally.
[x] DIY HRT Directory
[x] Point of Pride (Funding assistance, free resources)
[x] Trans Rescue (Moving assistance)
[x] Trans continental pipeline (Moving assistance to CO)
[x] Trans lifeline
[x], [x] Finding Informed Consent Clinics
[x] ACLU
[x] Mobilize
[x] 5 Calls
[x] PFLAG
[x] List of US iniatives
[x] The Trevor Project (Resources directory)
[x] List of LGBTQ+ organizations (GLAAD)
