So now that a federal court has ruled it’s legal for states to ban or exclude gender affirming care for adults, including HRT, what are we going to do if/when it becomes inaccessible in most of the country?

[mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io]

So now that a federal court has ruled it’s legal for states to ban or exclude gender affirming care for adults, including HRT, what are we going to do if/when it becomes inaccessible in most of the country? What are we going to do when they take new steps to police and criminalize DIY access?

We don’t need to put all the answers here, since these may become crimes, but these are conversations we need to start having with each other. These are genuine questions, not rhetorical desperation. The best time for organizing was ten years ago, the second best is now.

[mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io]

I think of the trans folks who organized the orchiectomy barn, with trained nurses and veterinarian doctors involved. How they found a way to make a critical form of care accessible when all other systems restricted it.

How people used to come down here to San Diego and cross over to Tijuana to purchase HRT over the counter and get other forms of gender affirming care at more affordable prices. About what it might take to make this more feasible.

How people have accessed things outside official systems and made them work, even when laws make it harder and harder, and the ways they take care of each other (appreciate that the existing DIY HRT community has been doing some of this important work already, and may be the best positioned to adapt).