#nonbinary hrt

Life of Lamb #19: Hormones

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA of course is my reaction to having to be perceived as having a gender at all.

The truth is that hormones don't make anyone anything. Hormones do not define our identities at all. Testoserone or androgenization doesn't make anyone a man. Estrogen or estrogenization doesn't make anyone a woman. Neither of those hormone dominances make anyone more or less nonbinary/genderqueer/gender expansive. Fuck people who're policing nonbinary people and gendering HRT, it's so fucking harmful. If you read the list of effects a hormone has, and you want more of those effects than you don't, then HRT might be for you. That fucking simple, it literally doesn't even have to correlate with your gender.

I completely agree! There should be mindful bodily autonomy for all, particularly minorities who need it. The state of trans healthcare in the UK is laughable (because if you don't laugh, you'll cry.) Nonbinary healthcare in the UK simply doesn't exist, let alone anywhere else. The extra hoops nonbinary people have to go through to explain ourselves to binary cisgender people leads to many more roadblocks at the final destination of getting hormonal treatment, leading many to have to simplify their existence for binary comfort. If nonbinary people transition in the UK, we are automatically issued a new NHS number and gender certificate that is the opposite of our AGAB. How outrageous. The social binarisation of our transitions is also outrageous, with binary trans people also engaging in bioessentialist and sex binarist thought that completely isolates medically transitioning nonbinary and intersex people.

This let alone with salmactive and nullsex bottom surgeries being scarcely known about and mocked within the trans community (calling it mutilating. How's that for ironic!). And all this is ignoring the horrific waiting times, the debates, the forced unexistence or hyperexistance, the not being taken seriously, the being taken as a joke that all trans people experience. And on top of this, people thinking nonbinary means non-dysphoric or non-transitioning or not wanting to medically transition. Goodness gracious, it's a lot.