International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) is a day for celebrating the lives of transgender people, recognizing the contributions we make to society and rallying against the discrimination we face. TDoV also functions as a counterpart to the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)^[TDoR is observed on November 20th and memorializes those of us who's lives were stolen by transphobic violence, particularly trans women of color. TDoR was initially founded in 1999 in remembrance of Rita Hester, Chanelle Pickett, and Monique Thomas, three black trans women who were murdered in the Boston area.]; with TDoR being a somber occasion and TDoV having a more celebratory nature.
For this week, in observation of TDoV, I invite you all, the posters in our community to write a little bit about the celebration of trans lives.
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homebrew hormones are actually better because it's artisanally crafted in small batches instead of being mass produced in a factory
they are fr better cause they are generally dosed much higher than pharma stuff so you have to inject much less oil into your body
What mg/ml do pharmas generally do?
it's not a thing in my country, but i have seen an american on discord who got prescribed 10mg/mL valerate
Oh that is gross, so you'd be injecting like 5x the amount you would on diy.
In Australia we don't have injectable estrogens approved by our therapeutic goods association so if you want injections the pharmacist literally has to compound progynova tablets and mix them with oil.
It's absurd both more complex, expensive and worse delivery than DIY.
(We do seem to be leading the world in implants which I have mixed opinion good and bad about)
ugh that's frustrating. DIY is just so good I hope we keep having homebrewers.
What's wrong with implants? I feel like I've mostly heard good things except how hard they are to get most places.
Weirdly we have a DIY Australian lab that makes and posts HRT worldwide (but they're laying low with the hrt cafe thing).
Implants can be expensive (200-500 AUD a go) and hard to dose correctly initially (imagine having to pay that a couple of times close together)
I think they're cool for two reasons, if done right they can last 6-9 months. Trans women can just be walking around taking no daily or weekly estrogen like cis woman. Especially useful for full stealth girlies.
Also if you have to travel internationally or heaven forbid had to go to prison, you don't have to worry about having HRT confiscated or denied.
What's the hrtcafe thing did something happen?
Tabloids in the Anglosphere ran a campaign scaring people that children could buy sex changing hormones over the internet without a doctor.
HRT cafe is down (still on the way back machine) but many HRT websites have gone dark for unclear time periods defensively. Like panacea pharmacy which for Australians was the best DIY as didn't have to go through customs and potentially get seized.
Ah that fucking sucks, death to tabloids
eternal Anarya^[Scythian transfemme shamans] missiles on teafuckers
So I didn't see this until now but earlier today I was arguing with a TERF boomer on Facebook (I know silly but it was in a niche lesbian group I visit) and I said this in response to them calling trans women a new phenomena in western schools.