This Is Why I Hate Bowling

I get it guys, I do, but let's think about it, how did we get here? What echochamber did we fall down to get to this belief that I'm not sure most people have thought about long enough to form an opinion on, let alone be angry about.

Hormone Replacement Therapy was initially (and most commonly still is) used to level hormones if somone was going through menopause, because it decreased the risk of different organ failures and dementia from the body slowing down with age. Birth control also hormone replacement, many athletes who are using 'steroids' are in some way manipulating their hormones, it can help the impact of hyperthyroidism, aid in surpressing certain cancers, and men who want to stop balding, are using hormones before it starts to happen, if you want to get technical with it, taking insulin to treat diabetes is HRT, but none of you care about that because it doesn't have to do with gender.Medicine tends to have many different uses and solves many different problems with the same thing used different ways and many people use it, the way they find out if it works often times by the exploitation of marginalized communitiesI.

I am worried here that this comes from a lack of interest or knowledge of what happens in the human body and that maybe we should also take a look at where our information is coming from, when trans people are less than 2% of the population and skew to be under 30, does it make sense that they, in this incredibly transphobic world would be the people primarily using hormones? That they were the one group who got researched and actually got something good out of it? When it's a fact that poor women, often Black and Brown were the ones who who were used as test subjects in labs, the same sort of women who founded our current ideas of gender, sex, love, and protest, within the queer community.

Does it make sense to further exclude one group of people and say this treatment is only for you, when we do this, we mirror transphobia already in society, by excluding them from their cis counterparts who are going through something similar, could this not in some world, be a bonding experience for the two groups, because guess what a cis woman going on Estrogen may also be happy with the growth of breast tissue, shocker. And so what if she were going on Testostorone instead, her reasoning is just as important as your own and she doesn't have to give it to you as much as you don't have to give yours, this is where autonomy comes in.

When we make these assumptions, we erase trans history, yes, but we also perpetuate misogyny, racism, and ablelism, which are what make up transphobia, when we do this we say that it is okay to not learn about our bodies or about women's bodies, because they don't matter, and that scares me, you deserve the opportunity to research the medication you are on and the history of how it came to be used on you, you deserve to understand how it works and who else uses it, I didn't think anyone needed to point this out, but you don't get to decide who is worthy of healthcare and who isn't, we fall back onto ablelism when we do that.

I know that it's hard to find verified information, but let me tell you, in the year of 2026, there are so I many books talking about reproductive systems, trans bodies and specifically vulva/vaginal health and I really think it would be useful for everyone to crack open a book and learn, to help as an ally to women, disabled people, people of color and queer people like yourself, go to the library, but someone's book, go on Internet archive, pirate it, just read the HRT Wikipedia at this point, I promise you education is the way to fight this one, here are some recommendations: You Know, Sex by Cory Silverburg, Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross, Welcome to Your Period by Yumi Stynes, The Booby Trap and Other Bits and Boobs by Dawn O'Porter, Tits Up by Sarah Thornton.

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past