Summary
Following Trump’s election victory, healthcare providers reported a surge in requests for reproductive and gender-affirming medications, including abortion pills and emergency contraception.
Aid Access, the leading U.S. supplier of abortion pills by mail, received over 5,000 requests within 12 hours, a fivefold increase from a typical day.
Telehealth providers like Wisp and Hey Jane reported spikes in requests for emergency contraception, while QueerDoc saw an influx of trans patients seeking guidance on hormone access.
Providers are advising patients to stock up on medication, emphasizing resilience amid uncertainty about potential rollbacks on abortion and trans rights under a second Trump administration.
The trans community will look after it’s own. If you feel like helping, there are many guides online to producing hormones and helping already existing networks of distribution for them. The entry cost is relatively low and once setup is easily repeatable for very low costs.
Abortion pills is another thing altogether. I don’t know if those are feasibly produceable with supplies that are easily available.
Luckily the Four Thieves Vinegar collective (an anarchist group who promote the right to repair - for your body) have our backs: https://fourthievesvinegar.org/abortion-care
I find that terrifying.
If we can see it, then the far-right Nationalist Christians can see it.
People who would bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic would think nothing of producing fake abortion cards and drugging or murdering women trying to give themselves an abortion.
I’m imagining a card prepared with an overdose of Tylenol on the cards instead of misoprostol.
How do you guarantee that the card you’re using is legitimate?
You make it yourself or trust the people you source it from, same way it’s always been
The video on the website talks about hiding cards where someone could find them.
I wasn’t talking about the availability of medication for gender affirming treatment, and I don’t know that any trans person is safe under Trump regardless of the availability of medication.
That is probably the most immediate pressing concern for most trans people, yes. Violence against us is a possibility in many ways, but denial of healthcare is almost guaranteed from their rhetoric. Denial of hormones will end in dead trans people. A lot of them. People like me who are post-op do not even produce their own hormones. Denial of my medication would have significant negative consequences for my health.
This is a post about medication as well, you can’t fault me for responding about medication.
What can I do to help, as a cis man?
Unfortunately I can’t vote in the US since I’m not a citizen.
I understand the issue there, sorry if I sounded callous. What I am saying is that I fully expect trans people, and eventually other people, to be put in “conversion therapy” camps within the next four years. I hope you and others can get out while you can.
I’m extremely fortunate to live in Canada, cant say the same for many of my friends and loved ones. I would definitely say forced conversion therapy is a real concern. If it comes to it escape networks may have to be formed. We have to be proactive. We can’t lose sight of each other. This is the reality of the world we live in now. So we have to resist it.
I never thought the U.S. would need an Underground Railroad again. Certainly not within my life time. It’s so awful.