Just saw a really shit cis take, so I’m just gonna say this plain.
Blocking access to cross-sex hormone treatments is trans genocide. Full stop.
It is as surely genocide as blocking access to thyroid medication, heart medication, or diabetes medication.
“You’ll live, it’ll just be harder” is such a colossally tone deaf response that it produces an inverse waveform that nullifies everything you say after it.
"You can live without it" is a phrase which, honestly, does not compute. Ever. Okay, you can live without all those things that give life meaning, you can live without television or (for most) internet access, you can live without music, you can live without books or games or jigsaw puzzles or pets. You can live without sex, you can live without anyone calling you by the name you know is yours, you can live without touch or attention or love.
@twipped I haven’t come across this sentiment personally, but I wonder how many of the people expressing it are on, for example, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs or ADHD medications.
@twipped I mean even if they're correct, isn't making trans lives harder enough reason to oppose HRT bans? Like they're basically saying "I don't really care unless it's a full-on genocide."
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My Gramma had to get her thyroid desiccant compounded illegally, she would have passed in her 70s if she didn't, the big pharma meds offered to replace it didn't work for her.
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