Prepping for my final year dissertation. The topic is “Does GaHT impact cancer rates/types in the transgender community?”
Would love to contact any people or organization a who may be ae to offer insight or papers on this. #gaht #transgenderawareness #hormonetherapy #genderaffirmingcare #genderaffiming #genderaffirminghormonetherapy
@julia There are a number of options available, but it will depend on her individual needs, her available funds, and whether she has any underlying conditions that might might make some anti-androgens actively risky.
If you'd like, please send us a DM to ask us for our Discord, Signal, or Matrix usernames to give to your friend. We'd be happy to discuss this with her and simplify the info.
In the meantime, here are some of the key resources that many DIYers read / refer to / add to:
There are other resources that we've pinned to our profile (which we really need to update into single posts, now that we have increased our character limit to 65536), but we also appreciate it took us a while to absorb and learn all the info, and we're still learning to this date, based on updated info and best practice.
Sometimes it's nice for someone to ask you a few questions and then go, "Okay, here are your safest options for DIY / homebrew".
We have found some of the articles on Transfeminine Science to be very helpful for understanding feminising HRT, but we do disagree with the author's interpretation of the safety or usefulness of certain meds (e.g., bicalutamide; micronised progesterone).
The introduction article is a good starting point for understanding feminising HRT, but don't take it all as gospel.
If you'd like to discuss more, our DMs are open 
#HRT #DIYHRT #HomebreHRT #OpenHRT #GAHT #GenderAffirmingHormoneTherapy #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #healthcare #trans #transgender
Hey folks
There are a number of estradiol simulators floating around the internet to help those taking monotherapy feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy / feminising HRT to simulate their E2 level with different esters.
e.g.,
These simulators openly state that they can only give you an idea of what your E2 level might be. They can't tell you for certain what your peak or trough levels will be, or what the precise elimination half-life for any ester will be in your body.
For example, we inject 6 mg of estradiol enanthate (40 mg/mL; MCT oil) weekly.
According to many simulators, our trough should be much higher than it's been measured at.
We've attached a screenshot showing the simulation of our dose vs what we have had tested.
The simulators are great for giving you a rough idea of where to start, especially if you can't get blood tests immediately or at all.
However, in the long-run, if you can get blood tests, they will help you to find the ideal dose that works for you.
The most-common suggestion is to go for the lowest E2 trough that keeps your gondal testosterone production fully suppressed. However, this fails to take into account that some folks may feel better or worse on higher or lower doses of E2, so this should always be taken into account too.
Hope this helps someone
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Edit: We've added that these are for monotherapy, as such simulators won't take into account the use of other medications alongside, such as GnRH agonists / antagonists or bicalutamide.
Sal
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