I'd be curious to see what US politicians think of the fact that every single trans person I know who is facing an HRT ban is either going to get their HRT from someone who isn't a pharmacy or is going to flee somewhere that doesn't criminalise lifesaving medication. (or is at risk of serious bodily harm at their own hand)
Unfortunately, I don't know if it's worth risking them pushing laws to criminalise non-pharmaceutical sources of HRT. It's already monumentally difficult for trans men to get T, I can't imagine how bad it would be if every single trans person, even those who don't have the misfortune of their HRT being a controlled substance, could be charged with a crime for accessing the medication they would slowly die without, assuming the mental anguish didn't kill them first.
There's also the legal can of worms this would open to foreign suppliers. afaict, many of these suppliers are not in America. Do you attempt to extradite them from their countries of origin at the same time you're also trying to rid the country of allegedly violent criminal foreigners? What do you do if the respective countries say no? Do you just keep letting it happen? Do you sanction the country over one person supplying people with lifesaving medicine YOU decided to make illegal because you feel it's wrong for someone else to treat their illness with physiological changes? Do you go even further down that line of thinking? Do you go to war over one person providing medicine you arbitrarily made illegal because it goes against YOUR morals in a country that prides itself on INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES?
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