CIRCLE WITH A DOT

This is actually kind of surprising to me! So I definitely had the impression that the biggest transition cohort on the fediverse is the Covid cohort (30%), and that the majority of trans folks here are post-2020 (55%), but there are so many more of us that are pre-2020 (45%) than I realized! Makes me happy knowing we’re all here. 🥰I know it’s a very limited sample, but this is reminiscent of what I see anecdotally in in-person community too these days.

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).