Quote from: Allie Jayne on Today at 03:05:17 AMThe cost and availability of medications are significant concerns when travelling. In Australia we have government subsidised medications, so visitors can have prescriptions filled, but at the full manufacturers price. And travelling with hormones can cause problems at borders, so you must have a valid prescription with you. While those countries are legally safe for trans people, there are still the same risks that all people face and a common sense approach to your own safety is still required.

Hugs,

Allie

Very true Allie. I have a signed and stamped Doctor's letter covering me across international borders. I paid about $50 for it. I would always recommend people travelling with hormones to have this back up although no one has ever cared-a-less about mine and if you deep dive into biosecurity custom rules, hormones aren't an issue anywhere I've encountered: even somewhere like Singapore. Stringent rules for female hormones would cause global chaos.

If you are happy to go to Thailand you can pick up hormones at perfectly respectable pharmacies over the counter for very, very, little money. I also stock up on my antibiotics for travel there. There's one called South-east Asia Pharmacy near Terminal 21 on Sukhumvit which is excellent. They may ask a few questions but you don't even need a prescription. Mind you, I've done the same thing whilst travelling through parts of Europe. Just rolled up at a pharmacy and bought my estrogen without prescription. You won't tend to find the more unusual types like gels although they can order things in. I once picked up bicalutamide there for example.

Interestingly, according to my Gender Identity Clinic, regular estrogen is generally secure from fakes because it's so cheap that it doesn't pay the con people to manufacture it.

For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not advocating any of the above, nor encouraging it. Nor trying to be radical. Simply reporting how it is. And please bear in mind that I once lived in the heart of the jungle for 6 years and the book 'Where there is no Doctor' was the practical bible. The niceties of prescription etiquettes tend to go out the window when you're in the middle of nowhere without communications to the outside world.

I've also done some very dodgy things in Thailand, including once injecting something which may or may not have been bona fide estrogen which wasn't well sourced. Always go through your physician if you can, and if not then see a good pharmacist.

xx

Quote from: Devlyn on Today at 02:23:14 PMI like self checkout, it's quicker in most cases. I make up for costing a cashier a position by just abandoning my cart right where I parked. 

I make up for it by doing most of my shopping online. We place our grocery order for the week, schedule a time to pick it up, and park outside. We don't even have to enter the building or get out of the car. Instead of employing a cashier, the store employs someone to collect the order items, and another to take the orders out to the cars and load them.

Since I was a teenager in the 1990s, I wondered why they didn't exist. The technology needed to have them existed and even back then I would wonder "why do I need to stand here and wait for someone else to slide a barcode in front of a scanner?". I much prefer self checkout over the old kind. It's faster and I don't have to worry about some weirdo trying to make "small talk" with me. I loathe "small talk".

I like self checkout, it's quicker in most cases. I make up for costing a cashier a position by just abandoning my cart right where I parked. 

I do

On TV I watch F1 and Indycar. In person it is Sprint and Migets on dirt tracks.

Ellen

Before I came out of the closet I would use them to buy female clothing but since I came out I no longer use them. I don't like supporting companies cutting jobs.

Hunters chicken with  potato  wedges 

Not really dinner seeing it was 10pm before I ate it but my nephew made pepper steak with lumpias and fried rice. His mom's birthday is today. She had some before her trip to see her daughter.

Quote from: TanyaG on June 09, 2025, 04:10:25 AMcan't bring myself to believe it is anything to do with cross-dressing, or being trans, instead it's more likely the explanation is that people with looser boundaries for gender expression are potentially more likely to question other aspects of their character. People who are assigned male at birth and brought up gendered masculine are heavily 'gender policed' (as in made to conform to masculinity) and when that policing is disrupted, it no surprise it can unearth some things people had previously never considered about themselves.

I think this is very true. Since becoming accepting of my gender identity in recent years - that my hetero-normative conditioning had always blocked off - same-sex attraction also started to flow; and as I became accepting of this it kind of became stronger and more natural. So having told myself for years that I was a straight male with some side interests - the authentic description is probably more like 'Bisexual Transgender woman.'