Friday, 2 March 2012
They don't make it easy
Zoe Brain at 3/02/2012 08:50:00 PM
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2012/03/they-dont-make-it-easy.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2012/03/they-dont-make-it-easy.html)
Testosterone ampules, vital for Trans mens' health (if only to stop their bones getting brittle) has been quietly de-listed from the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), resulting in a quadrupling in price, and ten times the price for those on low incomes with a Health Care card, entitling them to reduced costs on PBS medications.
Apparently it may be because Transsexuality isn't considered to exist as far as the Dept of Health is concerned (there are no drugs on the PBS for treating it), and for non-Trans and non-Intersex men, other alternatives are available. Intersex they're clueless about, and they apparently don't realise what a catastrophic effect this will have on Trans and Intersex mens' health.