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[–]RiverSong 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are subs for DIY HRT on peddit. Often it's men taking birth control, and of course that can't be healthy.

I'm waiting for all the studies about the rise in cancer ... but I guess they won't be happening or, if they do, they won't be published.

[–]totallyathrowaway87 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It depends. Honestly the course of HRT that you'd get from most doctors is probably worse for you.

The standard practice is to provide a transitioning individual many many times the amount of estrogen a woman would ever normal have and at a constant rate. Not on a cycle. If nothing else it outright causes things like deep depression and extreme emotional volatility.

By just taking birth control most of the diy types are probably safer specifically because they're doing it wrong.

I've heard of trans women using various other pharmaceuticals toward the same end though and that may or may not be safe. Well it's probably not safe.

As a point of empathy it's good to remember that actual established medical best practice will outright drive many of them mad even if they were sane before. Its quite a lot more than you'd get even from taking birth control.