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> HRT without medical/parental gatekeeping are widely supported positions in the trans community

It's a widely supported position of the trans community that minors should have access to home-made HRT without any quality control or regulation?

Because honestly, I feel like if you're taking hormone replacement therapy you want some kind of guarantee of quality.

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For some trans people, the alternative is no gender-affirming care at all, which tends to lead to bad health outcomes (e.g., suicide).

To be trans is to live on the edge of the law and on the very cutting edge of biopunk medical science. A lot of shit is off-off-off-label, where there are no guarantees of quality, but something is better than nothing which is what you'd get if it were up to your parents and doctors.

The alternative is the come to terms with one's sexuality, just like everybody else. In other words, in most relevant cases here, to come out as a gay man.

"Can you just not be confusing and ignore what you want to do with your life? That would mean the world to me."

This is what you said.

This was the first time I heard about "homemade" HRT. But proper HRT can be easily bought on online pharmacies. An index of them is available for example at https://diyhrt.wiki/ or https://hrt.cafe/

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