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Anyone else live in a place with awful gender affirming care? It suucks so much, like god I hate Scandinavia😩
yeah. i live in the uk and have just committed to diy hrt because i don't want to deal with the nhs
nothing like the mandatory sterilisation that i know exists (existed?) in some parts of scandinavia though
Finland wanted you to be sterile before allowing you to change your gender, they literally just changed the law before I legally got the diagnosis finalized so that was great.
also if you bring this up to the doctors they're like "
Well HRT makes you sterile anyway." which is a hilarious way to miss the point. Also it definitely wasnt forceful sterilization because no one was forcing you to do it! Being deadnamed and misgendered forever is totally a cool price to pay for not wanting to be sterile. 
Are DOCTORS really pushing the hrt-makes-you-sterile lie, I'm not even shocked just really disappointed
they sure be
most of the time i feel like I have to actually diy with the hrt that i can buy cheaply over the counter now, cuz these fucknuts dont know what the fuck they're doing
OVER THE COUNTER
but ime that is usually the case, many doctors are outright incompetent.
Can confirm. I'm a med student here in Denmark and my fellow students know nothing about trans people. I know some straight up transphobes studying medicine too, but mostly I've just heard ignorant/misinformed takes, although luckily it's not something that's talked about often.
honestly as long as they keep the hrt coming and the bottom surgeon isnt a fucking intern I'll manage
once the wait times are over anyway
No that's true, and uncritical support tbh.
The healthcare staff in charge of gender affirming care in the Nordic countries are honestly wack. I heard a story from a trans woman here in Denmark at one of the gender clinics who was recommended a circumcision instead of an orchiectomy to alleviate dysphoria when she specifically wanted to get a referral for an orchiectomy😵💫
LMAO
wack is an understatement
Yaa they are truly awful. They can’t be trusted and the usual way to go about it is to never disclose anything unnecessary. Especially when it comes to the approval process here you should never disclose any mental health issues as you are then likely to be denied gender affirming care.
I was met with a threatening attitude from the doctor at the clinic I go to for DIYing. She told me that if I didn’t follow their HRT regimen it could have consequences.
That type of person is downright fucking evil. I really think
It's so fucking stupid too because of course dysphoria and such cause mental health problems, transition helps that!!! And plus people just have mental health issues unrelated sometimes, needing a clean bill of health is pure gatekeeper dogshit.
What the fuck.
Down with the cis.
Cis people are so fucking weird
I'm disappointed too, that'd be cool (for me personally).
I mean theoretically if you were to scarf really unhealthy amounts of cypro, Idk. But yeah resilient sadly.
transphobia
They quit doing that less than a decade ago in Norway and the only public way to get HRT or surgery for most is to go through the same transphobic institution that was responsible for that policy, and most of the same assholes still work there now as back then.
I've just accepted that I'll have to be on DIY forever and never get bottom surgery because I wouldn't let any of the freaks who work there near me with a knife anyway.
Luckily, here in Denmark they loosened up in regards to IDs so you can change your gender marker and legal gender without any restrictions except for a 6 month waiting period to think it over😩, but it might not last as our 'minister of equality' recently wrote an awful transphobic article in some terrible news media. But ya on all points pertaining to gender affirming care it's awful here😭
do you not enjoy meeting some rando every 3-6 months so you can explain the same things every time? for shame.
It suuucks so much, especially having to spoof the blood tests to get anywhere near acceptable hormone levels😭 After my next appointment I'll go back to DIY injections.
I'm like 2-3 years into a 2-3 month surgical waitlist? Given up at this point lmao