For transgender prisoners, hormones seen as matter of life and death

[undergroundpanther]

45. I know

If I still had a female body,I'd be dead.I have had top surgery, had the female organs removed(and they had caused actual DAMAGE to my abdomen with crazy endrometriosis),and I take testosterone patches.
Each step has helped me"live" in my body.

Before transition my PMS was so bad I ended up in psych wards from freaking out or trying to die.

My body was literally at war with itself, it was not"all in my head".I was exposed to testosterone as a fetus before my mom realized she was pregnant. my sister had stopped breastfeeding and she was trying to dry up breast milk,and she had female trouble that led to emergency hysterectomy surgery,and so has my sister,they are not transgender.

Being transgender IS now determined a MEDICAL issue.
And it is.

If I take any female hormones again I would start growing screwed up uterine tissue in my abdomen.And my moods would make everything I already deal with worse. Non-trans people have difficulty imagining the torture being the wrong gender IS.Religious people who are trans-phobic are scared of their god to the point they want to control what OTHERS even those who are non-believers or different religions do.I am a mal-theist.I don't believe any holy book written thousands of years ago has any business telling others how to live,NOW.And these books are filled with vileness ,and religious people pretend that vileness does not effect them..

Chelsea I hope you do not die before you exist.And don't let the military religious and control freak bigoted ignorant assholes,macheesemo kill you..