u/Urgayifyouregay

Hi guys, i came back home from my bachelors in germany for my semester break, and I brought the vial of estradiol valerate that I got via diy there with me, and a couple syringes for the first couple weeks. I use 27g u-40 or u-100 syringes that I can get over the counter there, but after asking at a couple pharmacies they only give syringes out with a prescription here in bangalore. Can anyone please help me by sharing where I can get syringes from without a prescription? I'm closeted from my parents still but i really don't want to go off hrt because I feel terrible without it. Any help/advice is appreciated!!

Edit: I got the solution, just order em from the tata 1mg app, they don't ask for a prescription as of writing this!

Hi guys, i came back home from my bachelors in germany for my semester break, and I brought the vial of estradiol valerate that I got via diy there with me, and a couple syringes for the first couple weeks. I use 27g u-40 or u-100 syringes that I can get over the counter there, but after asking at a couple pharmacies they only give syringes out with a prescription here in bangalore. Can anyone please help me by sharing where I can get syringes from without a prescription? I'm closeted from my parents still but i really don't want to go off hrt because I feel terrible without it. Any help/advice is appreciated!!

Edit: I got the solution, just order em from the tata 1mg app, they don't ask for a prescription as of writing this!

I plan on coming out to my parents in a few days and I want to have them talk to an actual expert or a professional who can explain this to them. I'm 19 years old and they will definitely not take a single word i say seriously so i would like for them to talk to a therapist or a doctor who is knowledgeable about such things. Any help/advice is appreciated.

Honestly I'm just giving up hope that the majority or even a significant amount of cis people will ever reach any amount of understanding or empathy for us to care for us as normal people within my lifetime. We've been far too sensationalised to ever have a truly nuanced conversation with cis people about anything like the accessibility of hrt and the true severity of going through a puberty that you don't want and the medical measures we have to take to prevent children from suffering from it or even like on a social level just the slight deconstruction of arbitrary things like gender roles or the dismantling of the patriarchy. Atp the only thing I care about is that the people who I love and who are close to me see me the way I want to be seen and respect me as they would any other girl. I can't be asked to actually try to make everyone else feel that way too.

I'm not a white person either, so I've seen this exact same thing happen with race already. We still arent over racism in the slightest. By my midlife it will have been basically 2 and a half centuries since we started trying to take it down and i still have no hope that it will be any better by then. Homophobia and transphobia are the same, only they actually started to try and empathise with us from the 60's onwards.

This is a stupid doomer rant that has very little coherence but i think that at least some people here might agree with the general sentiment

Let me preface this by saying that i am making this post from a place of ignorance, and i want to genuinely be educated.

I will love and welcome any person who feels like they would feel comfortable as a part of any community that i am in, so long as they dont bring any harm on any of its members or me, regardless of whether or not i understand why they say they feel a part of it.

That being said, I dont get trans pluralities.

On a social level, being trans can be broken down into two things:

1. the gender you were assigned at birth based on the perception of your physical body attributes by the people who delivered you(and consequentially the gender you were raised as)
2. the gender you truly are; a concept that only you can know for yourself completely and requires a certain amount of self reflection to determine.

Now when one says that an "alter" (i hope im using the terminology right) of theirs is trans, because the alter was internally identified and realised as one gender at first and then later eventually after more introspection is actually found to be of another gender, how can this completely internal identification first of all, be wrong, and secondly, is it not transphobic to believe that a mental psyche can even be misidentified in terms of gender?

If theres anything i can truly say about myself, its that my mind and soul is 100% that of a girl's. The reason i call myself trans, am able to medically transition with comfort, and so many other things is because i know this for myself and on a certain level i have always known this.
If i ever did doubt this it was because of the circumstances of my birth where people wrongly told me that i was a boy based on my physical characteristics and i had no choice but to go along with them. If the world we existed in was one only of minds and personalities and none of us existed with physical bodies, i have no doubt that i would have been identified as a girl from the moment the person who i am started to exist. I feel like every other trans person would also feel the same way with their genders respectively.

I have tried to do research into the concept of having an alter or existing as a plural system within one body, but the only legitimate research papers i could find show that it is a common response to abuse and trauma. Now i know research papers are not on our side most of the time but i find it hard to believe that there is zero supporting evidence or at least a basic level of scientific understanding towards this concept that affects quite a few people. Maybe i havent looked in the right places, but if anyone could please provide me with some literature or papers that describe plurality it would help a lot. (this is probably the main thing that would help the most)

Once again, if someone feels like they belong to a community that i am a part of and are not actively harming anyone by being there, i will welcome them with open arms.

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Title says it all. Im tired of people making useless posts like these that do literally nothing to the world except get more people scared of what a treatment that could be lifesaving to them. Its disgusting and deplorable and the fact that you cared even half as much about its effects you could get all your questions answered within less than 5 google searches. Its honestly just pathetic to even think of creating and posting something like this.

I feel because of the outrageous porn epidemic in india, most trans people's first exposure to the idea of transitioning is brought to them by fetish content on porn sites that heavily warps their view of who they are and fundamentally changes their forms of expression of self for the worse. Most of these trans people (especially trans women), before even realising they are trans are exposed to this hyper-sexualised and honestly disgusting portrayal of trans women by the porn industry, depicting us as some sort of fetishists who live a secret life as part of some kink, when that couldn't be further from the truth. They are then taught to keep that part of them as a secret like that and to only express it in private, and this idea is only affirmed when they see closeted trans women who cannot express themselves because of transphobic society.

Let me be clear, I have nothing against the community and the activities they engage in, and I am well aware that there are "sissies" who are genuinely cis men, but in my opinion the vast majority of them are trans girls who are victims of the porn industry telling them that the only way they can be comfortable with their life is by turning it into something that should be kept a secret and as a fetish. This in turn is also leading to other people who engage in this community to conflate and equate trans women to femboys and sissies which couldn't be further from the truth. I honestly hated typing this all out but I feel like this needs to be said. I don't even know what can be done about it, hence the vent flair.