…I could have told you that 🤷
Source: https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1984574165643403370
Not my usual kind of source (Xitter), but I want any centrists out there who ask trans people to “just get along” / compromise with actual hate groups that want them eradicated to know that it doesn’t work.
There is no such thing as a reasonable bigot, by definition.
You’re still focusing on risk and not relative risk. You’re answering the wrong question. You are addressing whether HRT can have health risks. You’re completely ignoring whether its health risks are in any way worse than other OTC medications. That is the question here. You’ll die if you drink enough tap water. Do you have any evidence at all that HRT is riskier than other typical OTC medications? Cause I’m not seeing any here. Instead you’re treating HRT as its own unique and special category, rather than just assessing it like very other medication.
I also said that many OTC medications need to be more strictly regulated. The American capitalistic approach to marketing drugs is obscene and needs to be heavily reigned in. HRT is not a special category of medication because every substance that has a desired effect also has side effects that need to be considered. Acetaminophen (aka paracetamol or Tylenol) in other countries is regulated similar to how pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) is regulated as in needing to get it from the pharmacist in limited quantities in individual blister packs. It is absurd how poorly controlled dangerous medications are in this country, but it’s unlikely that will ever change because of the attitudes of American individualism and pharma lobbying groups.