It’s not clear what the Trump administration has planned for transgender procedures, whether that’s stopping coverage and treating it like other cosmetic procedures which are legal but out of pocket, or making it illegal to prescribe wrong-sex hormones, castrate healthy gonads, etc. Messing with your hormones can be very dangerous, bc ta…
It’s not clear what the Trump administration has planned for transgender procedures, whether that’s stopping coverage and treating it like other cosmetic procedures which are legal but out of pocket, or making it illegal to prescribe wrong-sex hormones, castrate healthy gonads, etc. Messing with your hormones can be very dangerous, bc taking the wrong ones for your body means things like elevated stroke risk, heart attack risk, diabetes, dementia, etc, which then need to be payed for by taxpayers. Side effects of drastically altered estrogen or testosterone can be suicidality, mood disorders, and elevated propensity for physical and sexual violence. All hormones are mood altering, so messing with someone’s hormones to the extent that transgender people do can trigger or exacerbate mental illness or behavioral problems. So I doubt it will ever be something people can legally just buy and take with no prescription or regulation. Doctors are supposed to have to assess patients before they prescribe them and some hormones are considered controlled substances. Transgender procedures are an ethical grey area with no clear pathway forward, regardless of who’s currently in office, bc the doctor is being asked to essentially induce an endocrine disorder and it’s accompanying cascade of health problems in order to cure a mental illness. Trying to cure mental illness through body modification is extremely controversial and was considered barbaric and archaic up until about 10 years ago with the rise of transgender activists. So: could republicans create policies that take away Mr Wu’s estrogen, and testosterone blockers? Maybe. He calls that “taking away his healthcare,” I call it “taking away state-sponsored self harm.”
It’s not clear what the Trump administration has planned for transgender procedures, whether that’s stopping coverage and treating it like other cosmetic procedures which are legal but out of pocket, or making it illegal to prescribe wrong-sex hormones, castrate healthy gonads, etc. Messing with your hormones can be very dangerous, bc taking the wrong ones for your body means things like elevated stroke risk, heart attack risk, diabetes, dementia, etc, which then need to be payed for by taxpayers. Side effects of drastically altered estrogen or testosterone can be suicidality, mood disorders, and elevated propensity for physical and sexual violence. All hormones are mood altering, so messing with someone’s hormones to the extent that transgender people do can trigger or exacerbate mental illness or behavioral problems. So I doubt it will ever be something people can legally just buy and take with no prescription or regulation. Doctors are supposed to have to assess patients before they prescribe them and some hormones are considered controlled substances. Transgender procedures are an ethical grey area with no clear pathway forward, regardless of who’s currently in office, bc the doctor is being asked to essentially induce an endocrine disorder and it’s accompanying cascade of health problems in order to cure a mental illness. Trying to cure mental illness through body modification is extremely controversial and was considered barbaric and archaic up until about 10 years ago with the rise of transgender activists. So: could republicans create policies that take away Mr Wu’s estrogen, and testosterone blockers? Maybe. He calls that “taking away his healthcare,” I call it “taking away state-sponsored self harm.”