Senators ask Biden administration to loosen restrictions on testosterone access

Nelson Vergel · Mar 3, 2022

We changed the settings since spammers were editing their prior posts to add links. Let me look into what to do so that respected members like you can be waived from that.

tareload · Mar 3, 2022

Nelson Vergel said:
We changed the settings since spammers were editing their prior posts to add links. Let me look into what to do so that respected members like you can be waived from that.

Oh ok, thanks for taking a look. I thought I got demoted or something as my member title got axed as well. I'm now a "member" instead of a "well-known member"

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Don't know how I ended up getting that title (haha) . I assume it's correlated with reaction scores? Perhaps have a filter on member scores to eventually earn the privilege of editing posts?

EDIT: I've got editing functionality back. Thank you very much.

Nelson Vergel · Mar 3, 2022

You are now a “veteran member”. You have more expanded “rights”.

tareload · Mar 3, 2022

Nelson Vergel said:
You are now a “veteran member”. You have more expanded “rights”.

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Very grateful. Thank you Sir.

RP McMurphy · Apr 13, 2022

Hi there! I just posted for the first time and went back to attempt to edit the post, make a few corrections, and update some data. Just confirming, does this functionality not exist? Thanks so much for everything! Greatly appreciate this forum and site.

Cataceous · Apr 14, 2022

Unfortunately the forum spammers were using this functionality to sneak advertising into their posts at a later time. As a result @Jason Sypolt had to reduce the time window for editing to 30 minutes.

tareload · Apr 29, 2022

Nelson Vergel said:
You are now a “veteran member”. You have more expanded “rights”.

Thanks again for this. Would really drive me nuts to make a big technical or grammatical error and not be able to refine a post. Too bad scammer/spammers have to ruin it for folks.

Nelson Vergel · Apr 29, 2022

We get at least one spammer per day. They are like flies! LOL

bixt · Apr 30, 2022

Nelson Vergel said:
We get at least one spammer per day. They are like flies! LOL

I have seen other forums where the first 5 posts or so need to be approved before appearing.

This may help you to eliminate the 1 post wonders.

tareload · Jul 4, 2022

On this day I am grateful for the EM team (@Nelson Vergel and Mods) and the ability to revise posts. I got put on "new user" status on another forum which has limited capabilities since I was posting too many links to the great content here at EM.

Thanks again!!

tareload · Sep 19, 2022

My post on Warren's letter to Biden got nuked. Was it that controversial?

Seemed like a very on topic post.

Cataceous · Sep 20, 2022

readalot said:
My post on Warren's letter to Biden got nuked. Was it that controversial?

Seemed like a very on topic post.

If it was intentionally deleted it would be nice to know why. It's all over the news, e.g. here, and does seem relevant and interesting.

Fernando Almaguer · Sep 20, 2022

Nelson Vergel said:
We get at least one spammer per day. They are like flies! LOL

Coming back when you swat them away!

tareload · Sep 20, 2022

Cataceous said:
If it was intentionally deleted it would be nice to know why. It's all over the news, e.g. here, and does seem relevant and interesting.

Thanks for your reply. In case it was accidental, here it is again in link form. If this gets deleted then I will have a more concrete answer

. @Nelson Vergel can you determine how that post got deleted? Thanks for considering as the info can help me tailor my approach moving forward.

Testosterone's Controlled Status: "Protect the Kids & Sports" vs Gender Affirming Care

Well this makes for an entertaining development. Election year! How will Biden play this…protect “the kids” and the “integrity of sport” or provide equitable and cost effective access for gender affirming care. @TC_Luoma: paging John Romano. You would have a good article to dust this up...

forums.t-nation.com

https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_on_expanding_access_to_gender-affirming_hormone_therapy.pdf

Amazing to me the responses I have got so far. Not too many traditional fervent T supporters seem to want to jump on the ship with the current captains. Everything hyperpolitical now. If testosterone gets unscheduled do we really care the justification at the time?

FunkOdyssey · Sep 20, 2022

readalot said:
Amazing to me the responses I have got so far. Not too many traditional fervent T supporters seem to want to jump on the ship with the current captains. Everything hyperpolitical now. If testosterone gets unscheduled do we really care the justification at the time?

I'd call this doing the right thing for the wrong reasons:

"Millions of regular guys need easier to access to testosterone to restore their health and well-being? F*ck 'em"

"Wait, now a much much smaller, relatively insignificant number of trans people want testosterone? Time to move mountains!"

tareload · Sep 20, 2022

FunkOdyssey said:
I'd call this doing the right thing for the wrong reasons:

"Millions of regular guys need easier to access to testosterone to restore their health and well-being? F*ck 'em"

"Wait, now a much much smaller, relatively insignificant number of trans people want testosterone? Time to move mountains!"

"Be careful what you wish for."

Nelson Vergel · Sep 21, 2022

Very interesting bill that I am sure will not pass. Whatever it takes to remove barriers to access!

tareload · Sep 21, 2022

Nelson Vergel said:
Very interesting bill that I am sure will not pass. Whatever it takes to remove barriers to access!

Not a bill yet. Letter inquires about administrative remedies through Biden Admin.

Nelson Vergel · Sep 21, 2022

readalot said:
Not a bill yet. Letter inquires about administrative remedies through Biden Admin

There will be strong Republican opposition even if it means better access for ALL even if trans people are the main focus.

Someone drafted a letter in May to protect the 11 hormones the FDA wants to ban compounders from making. In activism, you use the lowest hanging fruit that may benefit ALL even if a small population is the focus.

Robert M. Califf M.D.

Commissioner

Food and Drug Administration

10903 New Hampshire Avenue

Silver Spring, MD 20993

Dear Acting Administrator Woodcock:

We are writing to express our concern with recommendations made to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by an Ad Hoc Committee of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) which may have a negative impact on transgender community’s equal access to health care. The NASEM recommendations, which stem from a study commissioned during the previous Administration, include a proposal that would effectively outlaw the use of compounded bioidentical hormones (cBHT) for transgender individuals. These medications are vital to transgender individuals undergoing hormonal treatment to affirm their gender identity.

The use of cBHT has increased in recent times for transgender patients. Compounded hormones greatly increase the treatment options available for this underserved population and provide access to necessary care that might otherwise be denied. Medical providers work closely with patients and customize compounded hormone preparations to meet their individual and personalized needs.

The NASEM Committee’s report recommended that most cBHTs be nominated and considered for inclusion on FDA’s “too difficult to compound” list which would effectively outlaw these essential treatments. According to the NASEM report, cBHTs are currently used nationwide by millions of patients, which would make this proposal disruptive for those patients’ current medical treatments.

Inclusion on the “too difficult to compound list” would also create unnecessary barriers to health care for a community that is already underserved in our health system. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality’s US Trans Survey in 2015, more than three-quarters of transgender and non-binary people wanted hormone therapy related to gender transition, yet only 49 percent had ever received it. To follow these recommendations would only create more hurdles for transgender people and exacerbate these rates.

Further, the NASEM Committee, which developed these recommendations, did not include committee members with practical experience in compounded hormone therapy for either women with hormonal imbalance or transgender patients seeking treatment with cBHTs.

We encourage the FDA to reject the recommendation that cBHTs be considered for inclusion on the “too difficult to compound” list. We also ask that any further discussion or examination of this issue be conducted in a process that includes the active participation of members of the transgender community and experienced providers with the practical knowledge of the benefits of compounded hormone therapy.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of this request.

Sincerely,

Members of Congress