Sister Heart reading Arm the Dolls by Sarah Harpy from the anarchist library over Blackdresses

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Hi everyone! Our next gender affirming voice meetup is Thursday, September 4th at 5 PM CST. This is the second in our six month series we’re excited to share techniques for powering your voice, & building consistency. Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ex2bSXs6r/

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Hey folks  

As you're almost-certainly already aware, access to GAHT is increasingly being restricted, being outright banned, or otherwise unavailableb to many trans+ people under 18 in many places across the world 😔

For example, the UK had already banned new prescriptions of GnRH agonists (a type of puberty blocker) for any trans+ person under 18, and is now genuinely considering banning all private GAHT prescriptions too 🤬

GAHT is literally lifesaving medication for many trans+ people 

Without it, many trans+ people under 18 will struggle even more with mental health, and many will not make it to adulthood 😭

If you are a trans+ person under 18, or are a supportive family member or friend of someone who is, please start to make contingency plans now for the worst-case scenarios 🥺

We highly recommend bookmarking the below website and making copies of all relevant info and links in case it gets taken down:

• HRT4All
  • Before the site will let you in, it'll ask you to answer a quiz, after which it'll create a cookie called "quiz_passed" with a value of "true".
  • The website seems to have intermittent issues with the quiz, so if you encounter any issues, delete all cookies for the website and reload.
  • If all else fails, you can use an extension called Cookiebro in Firefox or Edge to import a "quiz_passed" cookie from a JSON. (Contents for Firefox cookie; contents for Edge cookie.)

If you're 18+ or soon will be, please also do the same for these:

• The DIY HRT Directory 2.0
• HRT Café
• DIYHRT Market.
• r/TransDIY Wiki.

Please note that there is now at least one homebrewer who offers estradiol sprays.

We all need to prepare now, before it's too late 🥺😞

Enough lives have already been lost. We can't save everyone, but we need to try to save as many as we can ✊

Boosts very much appreciated  

Edit 2025-08-19:

• Added some info to help anyone struggling to log in to HRT4All.
• Added info on additional resources.

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By any means necessary. No compromise.

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Hey folks

Needed to get this vent out of our system too, as it's been really bugging us lately.

Right now, the vast majority of the medical community, even those who consider themselves trans-supportive, are incredibly gatekeeping when it comes to giving trans youth any form of care, even puberty blockers like GnRH agonists.

In an ideal world, the following would happen:

• A trans kid says they're trans.
• If they've started or will soon start puberty, the trans kid goes to their GP or doctor with a parent or guardian.
  • If they can demonstrate Gillick competence, this can be without a parent or guardian.
• The GP or doctor offers the following options to the trans kid:
  • A puberty blocker (GnRH agonist or antagonist).
  • Monotherapy GAHT (i.e., maintaining a high enough estradiol or testosterone level to block gonadal hormone production).
  • A lower level of GAHT alongside a puberty blocker.

In the real-world, this sadly isn't the case. At the very best, trans kids:

• Won't be offered a puberty blocker unless they've at least reached stage 2 on the Tanner scale!
• Won't be offered HRT until 14 at the very, very earliest!

In practice, it's even worse than this in many places now. Even in many countries that consider themselves to be "progressive" on trans healthcare, trans youth will need to:

• Have been on a puberty blocker for 6-12 months before GAHT will be considered.
• Be at least 16 before GAHT will be offered.

In the worst places, there's no healthcare for trans youth whatsoever. In the UK, there's currently a permanent ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to any trans person under the age of 18. There are workarounds in place by private companies for this, but they're out of the price range for most people. Getting GAHT before the age of 18 will also require going private.

This forms the basis of the "wait and see" approach, which is conversion therapy by another name. Its nefarious aim is to reduce the number of people transitioning and to reduce the number of trans people overall, as many trans kids will not reach adulthood by being actively denied the right to transition medically.

The worst thing about this isn't the transphobia and transmisia from outside the trans community, but from within it  

We've seen people agree with the age gatekeeping and the need for medical diagnoses of being trans (ICD-11 - gender incongruence of childhood or gender incongruence of adolescence or adulthood), as if they don't trust trans kids to know that they're trans.

If we're going to use that logic, then clearly no-one should be allowed to go through puberty until they're legally an adult, as clearly all kids can't be trusted, right? Oh, and we should distrust all kids about sexuality too and prevent relationships of any kind until they're 18, yes?

The false logic quickly falls apart there. It's not based on not trusting kids: it's based on not trusting trans kids. It's the same nonsense that leads people to assume that all kids are heterosexual by default ("heteronormativity") and to distrust that anyone under 18 could recognise this about themselves.

The only reason it took us so long to realise that we were trans and bi wasn't because we weren't both of these things all along, but due to external pressures (Section 28; transphobia and homophobia) that made us suppress and repress these feelings. If we had felt able to be ourselves, we'd have realised we weren't a boy in our early teens, and that we were bi not much later.

In the UK, estrogenic puberty typically starts anywhere from age 8 to 13 and androgenic puberty from 9 to 14. There's simply no reasonable argument for delaying puberty in trans kids until they're 16 or even older. The "appropriate" age to start GAHT is whenever they've met the minimum puberty start age (8 or 9), when their peers are starting, and when they feel ready to start.

So yeah, we fully support trans youth starting GAHT at 11-12 or possibly even earlier in some cases.

Puberty blockers are meant to be a short-term stop-gap only to delay puberty. Once puberty has started, they can be used alongside GAHT in order to provide an age-appropriate ramp up, but in most cases it would simply be safer and cheaper to go with GAHT monotherapy. With monotherapy, trans kids get the added emotional, physical, and psychological benefits that come with a slightly-higher sex hormone level. (Just think how shitty it feels to have a low estradiol or testosterone level.)

Anyways, that's enough venting for now. We'll probably come back to correct typos, make minor amendments, or add further thoughts later. Right now though, we need to head up to bed.

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Face facts, you sheeple.

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Hey folks

We all know how shite the Cass Review was/is, and how it's been universally discredited and rejected  

Alas, NHS England has now set its gaze firmly on a review of adult trans+ healthcare services 😞

We would love to believe that this is being done in good faith, but NHS England has never been on the side of trans people.¹ As such, we believe that the best we can realistically hope for at this stage is damage limitation  

To this end, we wish to highlight that the page linked above links to an Adult Gender Services Review survey, which is open to:

• current, and recent, patients who have been seen at one, or more, of the [Gender Dysphoria Clinics] in the past five years
• family and friends of patients who have used services in the past five years
• current staff members, and those who have worked at one, or more, of the centres in the past five years

Even if it doesn't change a thing, we should make our voices heard loudly and defiantly ✊        

So let's go all out and tell them what we actually want:

We don't want better gender clinics: we want them to be dismantled entirely, in favour of desegregated healthcare.

We don't want to be forced to get a formal medical diagnosis of being trans to access basic GAHT / HRT, to have the right to consent to gender-affirming surgeries, or to change our legal gender.

We want world leading gender-affirming healthcare, beyond the nonsense, unscientific biases that still exist even in WPATH SOC8.

They don't want to offer us this, and will do everything in their power to ignore us, but that doesn't mean that our voices shouldn't be heard.

Maybe trans liberation won't come today, but we need to fight for it at every stage  

Boosts are very welcome and will be very much appreciated, by the by  

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¹ You can read all about the awful history of trans healthcare provided by NHS England in The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice by Shon Faye.

Exactly as predicted, the #CassReport has had a chilling effect on #TransHealthcare generally, beyond even its scope of support for #Trans and gender non-conforming children.

The report was commissioned by the openly transphobic Conservative Government of the day and deliberately excluded trans voices and experts in #GenderIdentity healthcare.

This was always the goal

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Tread.

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