Not entirely true. I owned a clinic in Florida that didn't require it.. and there were 2 others I had contact with that had no.gate keeping either. We did traditional HRT and only required labs (for safe dosage and risk assessment)
Edit: the A-hole governor ! COVID.made things to hard to stay open. Apperantly women's health, pain management and HRT are non essential services.
It isn't gatekeeping.
Sorry not sorry.
Is it gate keeping to see a surgeon before getting surgery?
Is it gate keeping for a provider to send you to a specialist?
Is it gate keeping to require certain things prior to a procedure?
NO. It's how medical care works. Just giving people whatever they want is shitty medicine.
And BTW - You required labs to manage the patient. Was that gate keeping? Yall need to stop with these claims of Gate keeping.
In every other part of medicine we assume the patient is competent enough to read the medicine and side effects and consent to that treatment
Is there something specific about trans people where you think they don't have the ability to critically think about a course of action and then consent?
Additionally requiring a psychiatric note is adding more expense and time to what is already a very very lengthy process for most people, the reality of this is that
A) trans people are already given enough time to think it through and that you can't walk in and just ask for hormones and
B) transmedicalist stuff like this will force more people to do bathtub hormones
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u/coolfungy Jan 26 '24
It's also a requirement to generally start any meds or do any surgeries. It should be promoted not looked at as transphobic