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SnowWolf's avatar

FYI: Sometime in the last three - four months, the VA became no longer able to provide prosthetics for trans veterans.

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Veronica (she/her)'s avatar

Fantastic post! I have two things to add.

1) Even if you can’t get a single prescription to be filled for a year, check the rules of how often you can fill a prescription in your state. Some states allow 90 day supplies to be filled monthly, which can be a slower but still effective way to build a backlog.

2) For progesterone, my provider has prescribed it many times and believes that best results for breast growth are starting it 6-12 months after starting estrogen.

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ev nichols, phd (she/they)'s avatar

thanks so much for sharing veronica! these are great tips!!

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Tucked between Trump’s budget cuts to public health and the bulldozing of basic human services is a quiet act of violence: the elimination of all funding for the LGBTQ+ line of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

No more trained counselors for queer kids in crisis. No more safe voice when they reach for help in the dark. Just a dead dial tone from a government that decided their lives aren’t worth anything. [Continued...] https://substack.com/@patricemersault/note/c-111595238

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