i have immense and great sympathy for the unique difficulty of accessing testosterone. i really and genuinely do and i don't want to diminish it. but can people who see posts by trans women encouraging people to stockpile/do DIY HRT—especially if the post happens to be intentionally directed toward other trans women specifically—please stop lashing out at those women for not being able to include as practical of advice about acquiring testosterone.
i know it sucks i KNOW but please listen to me. it is not trans womens's fault that testosterone is a controlled substance, or that that control extends to potential legal consequences for so much as openly or publicly explaining how to access it. that is why the HRT Cafe etc. only covers feminizing transition. if they faced those legal consequences then what they are able to do would be completely compromised. it is not because DIY trans women are a bunch of high school mean girls laughing at the lunch table, rubbing their hands together and relishing the fact that they have it so much easier as they pull the ladder up behind them. there is no fucking ladder.
do you think trans women like the fact that anybody anywhere can't get the hormones that they want? and do you think their own access to hormones is immune to legal danger, perfectly protected in perpetuity, to where they can't sympathize with anyone else literally at all? i know that everybody's nerves are frayed and raw from the election but it's depressing me to log on and see so many people yelling at trans women who are already sticking out their necks as much as the very limited medium of posting on tumblr dot com allows them to, or assuming that their inability to hand-deliver testosterone to those who need it is coming from a place of malice and not constraint. every trans woman i know wants hormones in the hands of those who need them, no matter who, no matter what.
