Comment by FakingItSucessfully on 21/01/2025 at 15:56 UTC*

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View submission: A Legal Researcher's Guide to Trump Anti-Trans Executive Orders

First thing, I agree with those who say hormones are more affordable than you'd think... if you can afford the doctor visit itself and get a prescription, you can also go to CostPlusDrugs.com[1] which is an online pharmacy started by Mark Cuban that doesn't take insurance because it only provides generic drugs at cost. All the basic MTF hrt drugs are available... estradiol tablets, spironolactone, progesterone. And you can get them all for 20-30 dollars a month last I checked.

1: http://CostPlusDrugs.com

Second thing, my state (Ohio) currently already doesn't allow using medicaid for transgender things, it's been that way for years now. But it's just being ignored (in my case anyway), all my coverage has continued uninterrupted the whole time, nobody but me has even mentioned being aware of that law. All the hormone therapy drugs are also prescribed for other things, for cis people, so the only way this kind of ban is enforceable is if they get the doctors to participate in enforcing it, doctors have to willingly refuse to use medicaid for trans people, otherwise the government wouldn't even find out. So everybody just stay calm about that part and hope that whoever you work with is willing to look the other way. If they aren't then do some shopping around to hopefully find a more supportive clinic.

ETA:

Spironolactone is primarily used for blood pressure in cis people

Estradiol is prescribed for menopause HRT in cis women

Progesterone is used as birth control in cis women

so to put it more clearly, any doctor can charge these meds to medicaid and the only way for medicaid or the government either one to know it's for a trans person is if the doctor or pharmacist voluntarily gives them that info, or refuse to charge the meds to medicaid.

Comment by FakingItSucessfully on 21/01/2025 at 15:56 UTC*

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