Description: A meme in two pictures and two text boxes. The upper image shows an anime-style character, joyous and smiling, surrounded by twinkling stars. The text next to them says: “You realize you’re trans.”
The lower image shows the same character, staring in despair, surrounded by darkness. The text next to them says: “You realize you’re trans.”

    • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      You realize you are trans… in Turkey 😔(transphobic everything) 🥰( pharmacy stores everywhere, all of them sell hrt medicine over the counter with no prescription)

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        So hypothetically could a gal jump on a plane to Turkey, buy a bunch of HRT over the counter, and fly home again? 🤔😅 I’m sorry about the transphobia, at least we have that in common 😕

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          Note that Turkey is not in the EU though. AFAIK at least E is also available over the counter in Spain and Portugal and if you live in the EU you may have fewer issues with customs there.

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            I’m in the UK, we did a Brexit so we aren’t in the EU either 🤷‍♀️ I feel like things might be better if we still were but that’s neither here nor there

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          “Sorry, that’s too many for one passenger…” followed by downing the whole bottle right there, and having a goddamn Sailor Moon transformation sequence.

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            Good to know I guess, making regular trips to Turkey might genuinely be the easiest way for me to get any HRT 😅

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              or you can order it online. Many providers supply it from turkey I think. That’s how I found out that I could buy hrt over the counter in my own country

              • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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                The issue is paying for it though, it’s not something where I can just throw my card details in and get girldrugs from what I can tell 🤔 I appreciate you telling me about it though ❤️

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                  Oki. It is also cheaper if you get from here. 17 something dollars for 2 boxes of estrofem is what I paid. Which truat me isn’t cheap for us when our economy sucks but is pretty cheap for visitors from other countries ig.

                  • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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                    But then I also need to factor in the cost of flying to Turkey multiple times a year 😅 It’s a real “why everything gotta cost money?” situation