The Platform for Trans Rights denounces the lack of basic drugs for hormonal processes
GAYLES.TV.- The complaint has been produced as a result of the shortage in drug pharmacies such as the Meriestra fundamental for the feminization and masculinization processes. In some cases, it is a problem of lack of supply because the necessary doses have been exhausted and the pharmacies report that they will not be able to refill them until February. Such is the case of injectables with testosterone used in masculinization processes.
But the serious problem has occurred when a drug with estrogens necessary for the feminization process was withdrawn from the market, which was the only one in tablet format and financed by public health. The manufacturer has stopped producing this drug and transgender people have had to look for an alternative without prior notice and without any justification or explanation. Neither has an alternative treatment been reported from the corresponding health services, which has generated an authentic avalanche of consultations with professionals.
The responsible laboratory ensures that this drug was only authorized for the treatment of menopause and that the Drug Agency allowed the withdrawal because there were alternatives in the market.
According to the opinion of qualified endocrinologists, access to medication is fundamental to the personal well-being of transsexual people beyond a merely physical matter because the lack and feeling that they are not taking this hormone generates uncertainty and anguish. In the words of one affected: "For trans women who are operated on, this scarcity detracts from health. Every trans woman who is in treatment and who stops taking it one day, is a hard emotional blow, very hard ... "And he adds:" It is also a situation that indirectly endangers our lives. "
Virginia Vallejosocial worker Ben Amics in the Balearic Islands confirms this opinion:
"This type of setbacks in the supply of medication for transgender people generates a great insecurity of Trans people in the system, as well as a high level of anxiety and frustration. The main question is which will be the medicine that substitutes the Meriestra for its cost and especially for the time it will take to be able to access the prescription for the new medication. "
The advice is to go to the endocrinology service as soon as possible to prescribe the most appropriate substitution medication in each case.
Source: CCMA, BenAmics.com
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