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    “Non guarderò la gonna di nessuno”: i farmacisti rifiutano di decidere chi ha diritto alla terapia ormonale sostitutiva gratuita

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    1. Natural-Audience-438 on

      The decision to make HRT free was a purely political one not a medical one.

      There’s a very small list of conditions for which free medication is provided – CF, diabetes, epilepsy and a couple others.

      But no free asthma meds when it causes 50 deaths a year, no free antipsychotics, no free bloodthinnners.

    2. Lena_Zelena on

      I can’t believe I am saying this, but… we should follow UK on this one and let anyone with a prescription have free HRT.

      Seriously though, why the exclusion? Trans people are basically a rounding error when comparred to cis women on menopause taking HRT. Just let the people have free medication already.

    3. fionnuisce on

      I was paying €960 per annum on my rheumatoid arthritis meds. I can’t work so that is a lot of money, but I now have a medical card which takes the pressure off. But even if you are working, with rising rent, power and food costs, €960 can make the difference between getting by falling into poverty.

    4. geesegoesgoose on

      The whole thing has been very confusing, with no-one actually willing to clarify, and it’s been a source of frustration for a while. Some have managed to avail of it, but it’s incredibly dependent on individual pharmacies, and – like the vast majority trans healthcare in Ireland – we’ve basically been left in the dark, along with the pharmacists.

      Like, I am going through “menopause” because I’m transitioning towards being masculine. There is Testogel on the approved list of “HRT coded” drugs. Technically I qualify, even though I’m not a woman, but I could theoretically meet the requirements – if you can call them requirements.

      Yet again, another shitty implementation from the Irish goverment, and it’s the people on the ground left to fend for themselves in interpreting it.

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