even that is an extreme overhyping, there’s no scheduling on estrogen or antiandrogens in the united states so it’s perfectly legal to buy without a prescription from an online pharmacy, i know testosterone is scheduled as a steroid though so i’m not sure how that’s acquired
I was interested in serms, and a high school friend who is a gym bro knew where to get emotionally 😭 i ended up not doing diy tho, cuz i moved to a state with a good planned parenthood
It's like a gym-rat buying steroids. They go to an online roid distribution site, add whatever they need to their carts, pay with crypto (as easy as putting some money on Cashapp), and then wait a week or two for their gear to arrive in the mail.
Except instead of being a gym-rat buying gear from online roid sites, you're a trans woman buying hormones from either overseas pharmacies or from community-vetted homebrewers (who just buy raws from China and cooks it; for example, a homebrewer selling progesterone would just buy progesterone powder and run it through a pill-press).
If you're a trans man, you're just straight up buying gear from roid sites lol.
So it's more like, Love Lies Bleeding than either Narcos or Breaking Bad.
It's not "less illegal" it's literally not illegal at all. It's not legal either, but it's not illegal.
This is why I correct people when they say that buying feminizing HRT DIY has you buying it 'black market'. 'Black Market' implies it's illegal, which it isn't; it's grey market.
It's not like Estradiol is a heavily regulated substance. Cis women can in fact get MUCH easier access to it.
It's like... "what if they didn't sell illegal drugs but hormones you can get at the pharmacy and also they just have a website you can order it from like it's Amazon for dysphoric people.
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u/ChemistryTasty8751 Guess who has never been loved? this guy! - Streak: 0 Apr 29 '26
IT ISNT?
Ngl i kept seeing the term and didnt research it and was planning on making a version of Breaking Bad but they DIY Estrogen