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  • rayne [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    First appointment with the clinic is this morning! I'm excited and nervous but I think it will be good. The clinic staff was very good when I scheduled the appointment and I think most of my nerves are thinking I need to come out to a heterocis dr. Justify how I'm queer enough to need hormones.

    Which isn't what is happening. The place is staffed with a lot of queer folks. And uses an informed consent model when it comes to hormones.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      My experience with informed consent is you go there and be like 'hey dude I am totally getting hormones!' at which point they say 'no way, radical! happy for you tbh!' and then talk a bit about what the funny meds do and you sign some papers. Very low intensity.

    • rtstragedy [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      kind of related, i transitioned like a long time ago and it was very gatekeepery and i remember memorizing childhood facts in exactly the way they wanted in order to get access ... but none of that mattered once i told them i was doing diy lol, then they wrote me a prescription

      yesterday i had a meeting with a nurse about getting a referral to the bottom surgery place and she started with a speech about how "getting gender affirming care has historically been gatekept by cis providers" and straight-up said she was going to do the referral for me regardless of the conversation, certainly eased the tone of the whole convo. (to be fair i wasn't expecting gatekeeping)

      times have changed i think!

      • rayne [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        Yeah today she wanted to know like how long I had had these feelings of gender non-conformity. But she said it was mostly so if I need a referral later on for surgery we have that date tracked.

        So yeah times have definitely changed, and I'm thankful to live in a state that's not enacting a whole bunch of fascist laws.