Many menopausal patients already struggle to access care.
Now, they’re worried Project 2025 could make it impossible.
At 38, I’m the first of my same-age friends to hit menopause.
I’m inmedically-induced menopauseafterbeating breast cancerlast year.
Menopause is typically diagnosed when a person hasn’t had a period for 12 months.
Medical menopause is when drugs are used to block hormones to treat another medical condition, like certain cancers.
The average age of menopause in the US is 51 but perimenopause can start as early as your 30s.
Hormones are also used by transgender people who choose to undergo medical transition.
This can include estrogen, testosterone, and hormone blockers.
Hormones and hormone blockers do so many different things for so many different people.
A hormonal IUD helps my friend with endometriosis have lighter, less painful periods.
A hormone prescription helps my trans-masculine friend live as their truest and most joyful self.
And hormone blockers help me sleep easier at night by keeping my cancer from coming back.
All of our stories are bound up in each other.
It’s one of the many reasons why I believe that trans rights are human rights, period.
Unfortunately, hormone replacement therapy for menopause has gotten an undeserved bad reputation.
Are menopausal women right to be concerned?
It also goes against the principles of religious freedom that this country was founded on.
Should a president with no medical background make medical decisions for hundreds of millions of people?
Conservatives like Republican vice presidential candidate J.D.
Vance haveimpliedthat childless women don’t have value.
So what are we worth to them in menopause, when that part of our lives is over?
Then, we all watched helplessly as his Supreme Court appointees did just that.
Trump has shown us who he is.
It’s up to all of us to vote accordingly.
