Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government
Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”
Fuck off, Google. For the vast majority of trans people in the UK this is the ONLY way to get hormone therapy.
If you're interested in HOW BAD it is in the UK for trans people, there's a 1.5hr video by Philosophy tube that goes into a lot of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8
Nebula link for those interested.
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fuck the tories (and by tories i mean labour too)
Both sites were temporarily offline after their domain registrar received letters from the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) asking them to suspend their domain names.
Were they hosted in the UK? If not, seems like a huge overreach
Hopefully folks can still get the supplies they need. I can see a lot of sketchy VPNs giving info to the UK government though
seems like a huge overreach
huge overreach is the uk's motto
True story
I hear the monarchy’s into a bit of overreach
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/
if the UK has socialized medicine and people can get hrt through that with medical supervision and proper dosages and stuff... why are people doing diy?
is it just juveniles who can't tell their parents?It's because the NHS puts up a variety of barriers to care, with most trans patients going through a 2-5 year wait to get the hormones. This applies to adults.
Most trans people in the UK use DIY until the NHS finally decides they're "Trans enough" to deserve it, and even then, it's not guaranteed to be available due to political reasons.
Essentially, the government in the UK is extremely transphobic, and trans people are demonized and looked down upon worse than immigrants.
so the NHS is really fucking bad about trans healthcare for a lot of reasons. The process is unusually bureaucratic even for the NHS and hyper gate kept, like they will just deny care based on single answers to weird questions. Without a really good doctor who is willing to go to bat for you and stick it out and who understands this very specific process in the NHS, you probably will never actually be able to get care.
Partially this is due to NHS being underfunded and partially because people in positions of power have worked to make trans healthcare as difficult as possible to get in England.
Good question. I'm an adult from the NL and I'd say more than half of the people I know on hrt use diy.
The first step would be overcoming your fear to visit a gp. These are tied to your postalcode and often there isn't much choice.
Now you have to overcome it again when seeing a psychiatrist, and pay for that because it isn't fully covered. So you might be paying a lot just to simply be discriminated.
I finally have a supportive gp now, which was a pain to find. The only medical professional I've seen that knew what she was talking about was the woman who did my laser treatment.
I'm still waiting.