I’m a trans man and I just moved here to study. I’ll make the story short, but in my home country I wasn’t able to get a prescription for HRT because they kept postponing my appointments due to our government, which kept “attacking” the one public clinic we have, and I was able to finally see an endocrinologist just a few days before my departure.
I already have a gender dysphoria diagnosis by both a psychologist, which I’ve been seeing for over a year now, and a psychiatrist (to my knowledge, those should be the only requirements to transition in Japan), and I’ve seen an endocrinologist and been informed about all my options and risks about taking testosterone ecc.
Are my options really only in Tokyo? Is there an endocrinologist or someone in Okinawa that could be able to prescribe me the blood tests necessary and the HRT?
I thought I could wait the two years that it will take to finish my Master’s, but honestly my dysphoria’s been getting worse and worse every day, I can’t even look in the mirror and I really don’t want it to get in the way of my studies, which are to me the most important thing in the world.
by Pandahorna
