Lena’s Bathtub Brew for Trans Women
High Octane Hormones from Ukraine made me feel like Wonder Woman
When I first started my medical transition, I went to Planned Parenthood to receive prescriptions. I had read the guidelines for the Informed Consent model of transgender care. It basically says, “this medication was not studied for the treatment of gender dysphoria; there may be hazards to your health.” I wonder how many folks that go to the clinic to get cross-sex hormones, walk out once informed. My guess would be that most consent. I consented, I had read a ton in the year between realizing that I was transgender and keeping my appointment. I cancelled a couple before I showed up at my first visit.
Planned Parenthood here in Orlando is reticent to prescribe injectable estrogen. They prefer pills.
I was a sponge for trans information. I read everything I could find online about my condition. I was very active in trans chat rooms. I was speaking to an elder-basically anyone farther along in transition is an elder-and she was talking about how she switched to injections and she got BOOM! I wanted BOOM! I asked the nurse practitioner for a prescription for injectable estrogen. She made some crap up about supply being problematic. I didn’t get what I wanted and that was my last visit to their clinic. I gave them three stars on…
