Increases Barriers to Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People

10.04.2022

Oregon Portland

“Increases Barriers to Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People”

I have served the transgender and gender-diverse community as a primary care and hormone therapy provider for 10 years. Many of my patients depend on compounded injectable and topical hormones to provide an appropriate, bio-identical balance in their replacement without having to inject multiple products. Many others depend on compounding to provide hormones in a base that will not cause allergy. Without compounded medications, many people would not have access to progesterone due to peanut allergies, and cottonseed oil, the base in many injection hormones, is a common allergen as well. Compounded hormones also reduce costs overall for a community overburdened by poverty due to marginalization. This restriction on compounded hormones would be harmful to the trans and gender-diverse community, and significantly reduce access to care.

Hear their stories. Protect their own words. Protect their access to compounded medicines.

On this page, we can only touch on the data that demonstrates the importance of compounded medicines to the lives of millions of people in this country. While the decision to take this vital therapy from patients and physicians might be profitable for big pharmaceutical companies, it will be disastrous for the millions of patients that those same pharmaceutical companies cannot serve!

We encourage the appropriate committees in both the House and Senate to hold hearings on this critical issue.

Explore our interactive map that demonstrates the importance of compounded medicines to patients all across the country. Filter these first-hand accounts by state to see just how vital compounded medicines are.