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Jan. 24th, 2022
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Jan. 24th, 2022 09:29 pmIn 1997, I began three years of therapy. After six months, I got my hormone letter from my psychotherapist. We began calling around Central PA for an endocrinologist who would do trans hormones. No one would do it.
I spent the next three years going through more therapy and beginning a "real life test" for two years so I could get my surgery letter.
Then I moved to Texas, it took me an entire summer of calling every single endocrinologist in the South Texas area until one of them recommended a doctor in San Antonio who did hormone therapy.
Even then, it took about a month to get hormones, and he ramped me up on them over a year (and eventually moved to injectibles, although he refused to teach me how to do it myself).
Today, I went from "This endocrinologist does hormones" to my first appointment a month later where I asked him about hormones around 2PM and got them at 8PM.
How the times have changed.
I spent the next three years going through more therapy and beginning a "real life test" for two years so I could get my surgery letter.
Then I moved to Texas, it took me an entire summer of calling every single endocrinologist in the South Texas area until one of them recommended a doctor in San Antonio who did hormone therapy.
Even then, it took about a month to get hormones, and he ramped me up on them over a year (and eventually moved to injectibles, although he refused to teach me how to do it myself).
Today, I went from "This endocrinologist does hormones" to my first appointment a month later where I asked him about hormones around 2PM and got them at 8PM.
How the times have changed.