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Can transgenders get hormones legally?
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karachi183
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Special procedures for special requests paid buy the "customer" (not patient) the customer. With that being said it's not that hard to get what you need legally if your of the right age.
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Mr.X
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I am fairly sure they can if doctor prescribed. I don't know how to go about it, but I'm sure there are special doctors for this.
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Mr.X
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big_boy_1 said:
I doubt you could get more then androgel, if that.
Most endos adhere to the Standards of Care (SOC) for transsexuals. This means psychological evaluation and therapy is a prerequisite for hormone therapy.
If the doctor is satisfied that you're truly transgender and mentally stable, a testosterone prescription is no problem. However, most insurance won't cover it.
If the doctor is satisfied that you're truly transgender and mentally stable, a testosterone prescription is no problem. However, most insurance won't cover it.
djsf
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I am reading Rick Collins "Legal Muscle", an informative, entertaining and very useful read on every topic pertaining to AAS and the law. I recommend it for everyone in this forum who chooses to use AAS, who is interested in using AAS or who knows someone who uses AAS.
Basically if your doctor prescribes AAS to you for a valid medical purpose, that's legal. That generally means AAS can be prescribed for hormone replacement and for gender-change operations because those are considered valid medical porposes.
Building muscle is not currently considered a "valid medical use". However, Rick asks us to consider this: surgery to implant fake muscles IS considered a valid medical operation, as is full-body liposuction, even both are purely aesthetic and arguably more dangerous a precedure than using AAS to build real muscle and lose real fat! It is quite a hypocracy that AAS are illegal for purely aesthetic reasons when more dubious and more dangerous choices are still legal and available.
Why is it that a doctor can inject a deadly botulin toxin (botox) into your face to make your face look nice, but the same doctor cannot inject a safe compound that has been well-understood for 100 years (say 250mg of testosterone) into your body to make your body look nice? It's a crazy mixed-up world. Go figure.
We all need to speak up to our various lawmakers, the people who create and maintain these crazy, poorly thought-out laws.
Basically if your doctor prescribes AAS to you for a valid medical purpose, that's legal. That generally means AAS can be prescribed for hormone replacement and for gender-change operations because those are considered valid medical porposes.
Building muscle is not currently considered a "valid medical use". However, Rick asks us to consider this: surgery to implant fake muscles IS considered a valid medical operation, as is full-body liposuction, even both are purely aesthetic and arguably more dangerous a precedure than using AAS to build real muscle and lose real fat! It is quite a hypocracy that AAS are illegal for purely aesthetic reasons when more dubious and more dangerous choices are still legal and available.
Why is it that a doctor can inject a deadly botulin toxin (botox) into your face to make your face look nice, but the same doctor cannot inject a safe compound that has been well-understood for 100 years (say 250mg of testosterone) into your body to make your body look nice? It's a crazy mixed-up world. Go figure.
We all need to speak up to our various lawmakers, the people who create and maintain these crazy, poorly thought-out laws.
djsf said:
That's a great post. I think the transgender community is or could be an ally to the bodybuilding community. They want to use steroids to develop the characteristics of the opposite sex. While we want to use them to develop more of our own gender's dominant sexual traits.
Let's be careful not to begrudge the transgender community the access to steroids that they currently have. Unlike most of us posting here behind pseudonyms, they had the balls to go out and demand that they get the steroids that they needed for their purposes. And I bet lots of them would want us to have them for our purposes as well.
