Healthcare providers report unprecedented demand for reproductive and gender-affirming medications: ‘We’ve never seen this before’

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.

  • LadyAutumnEnglish
    17·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • dan@upvote.au
      1·
      1 hour ago

      What can I do to help, as a cis man?

      Unfortunately I can’t vote in the US since I’m not a citizen.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 hours ago

      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.

      • LadyAutumnEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          5·
          12 hours ago

          I never thought the U.S. would need an Underground Railroad again. Certainly not within my life time. It’s so awful.