Dawn, I feel you're tone is insulting OK,.
Your response is as much your opinion
and much more categoric than your
answers warrant
All the things I said reduce the risk to quasi zero
taken as a whole. So, going after them individually
makes no sense.
The chinese whisper crack is extremely condescending,
you don't know me, I could be a medical researcher for
all you know.
You answer, by the way clearly shows
that you don't know what your talking about. There's
plenty of solid information backed by studies and practice
online, in particular one forum which I'm not going to
point to because its against this forum's policy.
There 100 times more risks from smoking or drinking
or even eating trans fats every day,
there's hundreds of disease linked to obesity
and more are found every day,
so hey, are you going to put a
doctor in front of every taco joint or bar.
Risks are relative to others.
Everything has a risk.
That's how you deal with risks one against the other,
not trying to reduce all risks to zero, or giving
some risks some mythical quality regardless
of their number.
All of these things alone would not be alone would mean nothing, but put together
will make it relatively safe. There are no absolutes.
If you give sky diving or climbing equipment to someone
who wants to start in both sports
what are the ethics of that? Both are more risky than HRT for sure.
If someone is not willing to go to a regular doctor, why do you think they'll
want to subject themselves to dozens of psychologists sessions they can't afford
or don't want for whatever reason to get to this elusive letter.
BTW, I've dealt with hundreds of DIYer online and in real life in the last 15 years (that's
how long I've been in therapy by the way) and at least half eventually get to a doctor,
because there are other reasons for going to the doctor besides DIY and you'll
have to face him eventually if you want regular health care.
As for the reversibility of HRT, all but potential sterility are absolutely reversible (breasts may need to be taken out with surgery, but that's still reversible). Sterility itself is not assured
(some had a child after years while still on HRT!) nor absolute, its possible that your sperm count will not go back to what it was before, but even if its very low, its still possible to procreate with assisted means (just not in the natural way).
There's reality that many DIY eventually drift "in the system". I've known plenty of those too.
They just didn't want to deal with the medicalisation of the first step. I feel myself that
Posted on: March 18, 2008, 08:22:19 AM
While the SOC may say there is a fast track.
I've talked to enough people to know that in reality, at least in Montreal
in the public sector (which is the only one poor people would be able to afford)
you have to wait a very very long time for hormones no matter how
well adjusted and certain you are that you want them.
Private care is too expensive for A LOT OF PEOPLE.
and that's the only way to get HRT in 3 months around here.
What I hate is dogma.
The fact that TS is medicalised at all is a sad obligation because we
need access to HRT and surgery. So, it is to protect the doctor
and patient or they'd give your the letters right away. I can
get 20 operations on my face which will make me look like someone else
but need letters to get HRT? Not logical is it...
