ugh I'm in Texas in the USA so I have to wait 2 entire years till I'm 18 to take hrt, torture

I'm glad the waiting list is shorter for children, but it's still 2 years, which makes a huge difference for a child going through the wrong puberty without access to puberty blockers (GPs should be able to prescribe it, but they're too scared too)

If you think there is any chance you can get in i recommend psytrans. They are pretty over whelmed, they open their wait-list for a few hours a month. But if you get in you'll get helped really quick. I really hope you and your kid get the through as quick as you can.

Lmao.. your son is trans? What a coincidence.. I bet he came to that all on his own with zero influence from you. I feel deeply sorry for him

yeah, not only is she a reincarnation of William the Silent, she also claims to be a reincarnation of the Romanovs too :')

Sorry, I don't understand. If you are agender what are you trying to achieve by taking hormones? If this too personal please feel free to ignore my question.

yea i mean the core difference here is that we don't really have a specialised system to deal with trans ppl (at least up to hrt) so you just kind of go to a therapist (though most therapists don't treat trans people and getting a therapist when you're _not_ trans is already hard enough) and then an endocrinologist (same for those). trans healthcare is incredibly heterogeneous at least there's _technically_ no fully-segregated system for trans issues from mental health issues (still fucking shit to group those though), but in practice you're very reliant on knowing where to find doctors that do treat trans people, and then doing a whole bunch of phone/email convos until you find someone actually takes in new patients, which may be very area-dependent. that can take months, if and only if you manage to stay sane.

That sounds like a fucking nightmare. I signed up for a waitlist like last week but I'm thinking of going diy rn because holy shit all of these stories and waiting times just make me feel so awful.

Same here, been waiting for 3 years and still 2 to go. But i have no clue how to get T as it is actually illegal to buy and use steroids as well in my country :(

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you don't inject E intravenously so air bubbles aren't too big of an issue afaik, it's much less dangerous to accidentally inject an air bubble subcutaneously.

This video essay is an analysis of the Dutch trans care system specifically from a radical leftist perspective, so ofcourse it's going to be "one-sided"; i'm not going to defend any positions i don't personally believe in or believe will be harmful to me. If your takeaway is that i should've paid attention to the "good psychologists" at the VUmc, then honestly, i don't know what you expected. The whole point i'm trying to illustrate is the fact that any system that has psychological requirements for trans-related healthcare is deeply pathologizing and infringing on trans people's human rights and their medical and bodily autonomy. It doesn't matter that there are good psychs at the VUmc, as there should be _no psychologists in the process at all,_ since this is a sexual health condition and not a mental illness that can be detected and "cured". By requiring psychological assessments for trans care, the VUmc systemically breeds bad psychologists because it puts them in a position of authority over the patient, and this authority creates an opportunity for them to be abusive and coercive towards the patient; even if there are good psychs who do not do this, the fact that the system allows it to happen is the real issue here. You say that patients don't have to answer questions that make them uncomfortable, but most patients recognize they are in a position of powerlessness; they feel deeply pressured to answer these uncomfortable questions or even _lie_ to make their answers sound more plausible, because they realize that care can be withheld if they don't comply. The fact that there is a system that forces them to comply is the real issue here. It is pathologizing and dehumanizing towards the trans community. Trans people should be given full autonomy over their bodies and their medical decisions instead of being forced to rely on this abusive system. I've said it a few times in the video, but i'm not a medical expert! I do clean the vial with an alcohol wipe as mentioned in the video. I've received a lot of mixed information about what to do in terms of drawing air into the vial and such. Normally i would be injecting myself with the help of my polycule and friends giving me advice on what to do, but since i had to record this for the video i did it all by myself without them on a call, and it does show. I'll be writing and pinning a comment later with links to actual resources and instructions on how to perform injections since i don't want anyone to make the mistake of following this video as a guide (since it's not a guide).

@@idadeerz One psychologist does not get to decide whether someone starts hrt or not. They just get information about a patient and then afterwards there's a meeting where the case gets presented to multiple proffesionals from different fields. They as a group get to decide whether or not the patient gets a gd diagnosis or not. What I meant with you have a one sided view is that you seem to have an idea of the VUmc that is just not correct imo. They are just a gender clinic rooted in science. They try to do everything properly by just following what their patients tell them and doing research. They just got overloaded with patients which is why it has such long waiting lists. That's not their fault, but it does get radical left trans folks to become mad at them. Ngl I was too before I started treatment with them. But once your in the process there everything is handled properly. I also know that others have not had that experience, hence why I said there's good and bad psychologists.

@@littlesailor1533 I feel like you're once again missing the point of what i said. You start your reply by stating that there are multiple professionals who decide whether you get a GD diagnosis. My issue isn't whether they do their job well or not. My issue is that _they're there in the first place._ They shouldn't be! This is a sexual health issue that should be treated at your local doctor's office just like birth control, it's not something that should ever require a diagnosis. The fact that it does require a diagnosis is extremely pathologizing and dehumanizing to the trans community and infringes on our bodily and medical autonomy.

@@idadeerz Agreed.

I'm not sure what you mean? I'm pretty sure trans healthcare is funded by health insurance here, not through the tax system.

@@idadeerz im talking and anywhere and everywhere.

@@lescobrandon9539 I agree. Zero taxpayer money or health insurance fees should be going to things that harm people. Which is why i propose we should do away with this system entirely and give trans people access to informed consent hormones. No more taxpayer money going to useless shit! Isn't that better?

@@idadeerz sounds good to me. Adults only of course. That goes without saying but these days you never know.

I hope you don’t think you can come into my washrooms or changing rooms.

Wow bro that's such an epic for the win roast bro, it's so nuts that while all your enemies have been manipulated into believing misinformation, you have stayed rational, and logical, by only following the good guys, without bias nor agenda, and being able to see the bad guys easily

@@Amphibian42 Yes. Actually yes. Trans ideology, the way it has become over this decade, is a cult. Trying to hold on to the things that made humanity prosper instead of stagnate will never be wrong. You are on the wrong side of history.

...you do realize that most of this video has been about me _struggling to access_ mental health care, right? What do you think the waiting lists are for? And if your idea of this is accessing (conversion?) therapy as opposed to trans-affirming therapy: well, the health care system is generally so fucked that not only are there year-long waiting lists for trans-affirming therapy, there are year-long waiting lists for *every single type of mental healthcare/therapy in the country.* This is not the epic diss you think it is. The system is generally still broken for _everything._

@@NoBody-pf2nv there is no ideology, i don't think you know what the word means, trans people are just people who feel like they'd rather act differently to how the standard cultural stereotypes would portray them, nothing else really, it doesn't do much damage they still participate in society but it's a purely social change, and if you've interacted with the real world a decent amount you would've definitely interacted with trans people and affirmed them without even knowing it, because social identity isn't an ideology it's a presentation and performance, as is the basis of all human personality

@@Amphibian42 Factually wrong. Why do you types always use these weird contrived arguments of "Oh, you've actually affirmed trans people without knowing, so your argument is mute, haha". Quite childish logic really. Also it absolutely has an ideology behind it. The idea that who "you" are is determined not by you biological factors that are factually provable, by the society around you without who you could not exist, or by a god is an idea not everyone will share. You are what you are and should be happy about it. Explain to me why an individual who is "true to themselves" by injecting drugs into their body to force it to change in an unintended way (often carrying health problems with it), getting surgery mutilating their natural genitalia, and then calling everyone a "Nazi" who dares oppose their worldview, should not be laughed at society wide.