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No. This is incorrect. OP explicitly mentions "jumping through bureaucratic hoops" > Not long after, I had jumped through the relevant bureaucratic hoops, and
by cobertos 1y ago
No. This is incorrect. OP explicitly mentions "jumping through bureaucratic hoops"
> Not long after, I had jumped through the relevant bureaucratic hoops, and subsequently found myself cycling home from the pharmacy
- comrade1234 1y agoNo mention of a doctor or monitoring. I don't live in the USA - bureaucratic hoops sounds like what I go through to get my id renewed.
- ghushn3 1y agoI believe it's implied. Typically the bureaucratic hoops involve 1-2 mental health professionals writing letters in support, potentially 0-2 years "living as the gender" before they will write those letters, meetings with your doctor, bloodwork for baseline hormone levels (sometimes multiple times), and then finally you might get a scrip. But if you encounter someone along the way who doesn't want to co-operate, you might need to redo those steps. It's really rather difficult, depending on where you are.
- cube_flipper 1y agoI was living maybe ten minutes' walk from the local testing clinic at the time so it was actually pretty easy to monitor my blood work.