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🐆 Right-wing trans woman finds out "gender-criticals" cannot be reasoned with (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Armand1@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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...I could have told you that 🤷

Source: https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1984574165643403370

Not my usual kind of source (Xitter), but I want any centrists out there who ask trans people to "just get along" / compromise with actual hate groups that want them eradicated to know that it doesn't work.

There is no such thing as a reasonable bigot, by definition.

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am very glad that you were able to get your own care and didn't have any bad outcomes. On the other hand, I've had cis-female patients go to naturopaths or chiropractors to get estrogen and/or testosterone pellets for peri-menopause symptoms and they had no idea what the risks were. In the emergency department, I've had cis-female patients on estrogen replacement therapy that was not well managed show up with DVTs. Cis-male patients on supraphysiologic testosterone are at risk for several different kinds of organ failure along with a drastically increased risk of heart attacks.

I don't think that trans patients are terribly likely to harm themselves with DIY HRT, but having hormones available OTC is going to lead to a lot of cis people getting sick or getting killed by taking extra hormones to try to fix their problems because scammers and quacks have convinced them that hormones will magically fix all of their problems.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

You're still focusing on risk and not relative risk. You're answering the wrong question. You are addressing whether HRT can have health risks. You're completely ignoring whether its health risks are in any way worse than other OTC medications. That is the question here. You'll die if you drink enough tap water. Do you have any evidence at all that HRT is riskier than other typical OTC medications? Cause I'm not seeing any here. Instead you're treating HRT as its own unique and special category, rather than just assessing it like very other medication.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I also said that many OTC medications need to be more strictly regulated. The American capitalistic approach to marketing drugs is obscene and needs to be heavily reigned in. HRT is not a special category of medication because every substance that has a desired effect also has side effects that need to be considered. Acetaminophen (aka paracetamol or Tylenol) in other countries is regulated similar to how pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) is regulated as in needing to get it from the pharmacist in limited quantities in individual blister packs. It is absurd how poorly controlled dangerous medications are in this country, but it's unlikely that will ever change because of the attitudes of American individualism and pharma lobbying groups.