@buddha_tee @aesthr DIY HRT is is widespread and extremely well understood practice among dolls carrying minimal risk and in most countries, esters are not even controlled substances. These are not dirty or unskilled operations, and most of them are run by educated people with laboratory skills.

The state only involves itself in these matters to track those trying to get it, placing a deliberately humiliating and adversarial beaurocratic maze in front of actual getting treatment in many countries, and ultimately so that we can be eliminated when the fascist scapegoating reaches this point. Access to HRT is existential for trans people, therefore it must be gotten by any means. Presumably, you do not ask a homeless man why he trespasses to find shelter or a starving person why they steal bread. We wish this weren't the case, but it is.

In fact, the first time historically medically assisted transition was institutionalized with modern methods by a state recognized institution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft), the Nazi state eventually used information seized from those institutions to make sure they knew who to round up decades after it started.

Furthermore, I stress, the various forms of estriadol which are easy to prepare from verified pure sources with basic lab equipment are not scheduled in most countries (unlike androgens, due to their status as a performance enhancer in sports), and trans people have their own institutional knowledge and support networks regarding dosing, monotherapy, and polytherapies involving androgen blockers spanning over a century. The average trans person knows at least one or two dolls with professional careers who have superior knowledge of the human endocrine system to nearly everyone without an endocrinology specialization who they can consult with.

I promise you have no idea what you are talking about with this one, and the deceptive framing in the news is textbook demonization of a minority (portrayal of legally gray non-violent activities which are necessary for survival as dangerous and irresponsible). If this were about the Black Liberation Army in the US for example, the state would be saying the food being distributed to the community hadn't been inspected by the state, or the curriculum of the free schooling hadn't been approved, etc, etc.

This is happening because trans people have a long-running pact that we're going to live instead of killing ourselves or letting ourselves be killed, the same way in happened in Nazi Wiemar Germany cracking down on the openly queer movements in Berlin (https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-became-center-of-lgbtq-rights-in-1920s/a-76712016). This is why trans people who know their own history are extremely wary of being catalogued by the state for any reason.

If you claim to support what that rainbow flag stands for, which is what our brothers and sisters died at stonewall for, and fought against the AIDs epidemic for, you should revise your position immediately.