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- Feb 28, 2021
They'll probably do what they did with the wizard game chimpout and claim these were TERF sockpuppets masquerading as trans people.I'm calling it: if Erin actually self-unalives the community is going to shriek about how "she took her life from all the hate she got", omitting the part where the hate was coming from said community. It's Sagal all over again.
I suppose their approach is rational, in the sense that your (completely normal) reaction is what they're afraid of.This discourse is genuinely insane. "Don't go to the press?" Fedposting? You people are talking about buying hormones illegally and then self administering them. No supervision by actual doctors or nurses, just injecting yourselves with drugs in your rooms to keep your body from fucking falling apart because of all the other drugs and surgeries. Forget trans genocide, this is fucking mass suicide.
I assume Erin's goal was to make people go "Oh wow, the situation is so bad that trans people are resorting to buying hormones online and endangering their health and wellbeing! We need to overturn these transphobic laws right now" and instead people are going "They're buying hormones online and taking them without medical supervision? That's nuts, someone needs to do something to stop this".
If you're an autist computer programmer who thinks he can do bodyhacking and that the medical establishment is getting in your way, you might prefer to get your hormones online (e.g. the NHS doesn't proscribe progesterone to trans women, but it's often seen as the surefire way to get massive mommy milkers and your libido back, so off to the internet they go). Likewise predators want the option of running stuff like catboy ranch, which by necessity requires illegally sourced hormones that they can groom children into taking and secretly send them. Plus as we've seen, there's trans people convinced they're all about to be genocided and so are trying to rapidly source and stockpile hormones (including the one in the AP article that apparently was only taking half-doses of what was prescribed, to fuck up the bloods and get a double dose to stockpile).
Unless healthcare providers start just giving out any and all hormones in whatever combination or dosage asked (and yes this is something that gets brought up as a desire to let trans people have "ownership" of their transitions, health consequences be damned) there's going to be a bunch of trans people opposed to anything that shines a light on this practice. Cat's out the bag, though.