Weird how you need a health care professional to prescribe hormones for you because they’re dangerous if used without medical supervision, but you can just go to Home Depot and buy a table saw

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Weird how you need a health care professional to prescribe hormones for you because they’re dangerous if used without medical supervision, but you can just go to Home Depot and buy a table saw
An even better comparison is alcohol or tobacco, because their social value is marginal compared to their risks.
I don’t know that I necessarily want to get into ranking things by “social value”, because a single definition of social value that we all agree on will probably never exist. To a lot of cis people, the value of hormones for trans people is marginal because, to them, the social value of trans people is marginal. If we stick to a “risk” framework, then, I don’t think the comparison to tobacco is too useful because people who care about public health would mostly like to see it go away. The risks of alcohol, meanwhile, are culturally mediated (if you’re in a culture that doesn’t make people so miserable that they want to get wasted out of their minds, for example, a lot less damage gets done with alcohol.) Power tools have inherent risks, but we’ve made the choice to consider the individual tool user to be assuming their own risk. So the question is: why?