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Getting On Testosterone While Under 18 In Pdx


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Guest ramoneskid

I'm a 16 year old transsexual, I have a gender therapist about to give me a letter stating I'm in need of hormones. I'm living in Portland Oregon and I'm in a poor financial situation. Can anyone give me any advice, suggestions as to places I could go. My mom is here in PDX with me til next week. Then I'm on my own.

I have already gone to the Outside In, there's a lot they could help me with, excluding hormones, since I am under 18. I know there's Smyrk but I haven't got a bike yet since mine was smashed.

PS for Oregonians- If you live in Portland, have a spare bike in working condition you no longer have a use for and would be interested in giving the bicycle away for free to someone in the NE district, that would be radical!

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I have no information about Portland, however for clarification, is it that you're looking for a doctor to write the script after you get your letter? Or info about prescription payment?

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You'll probably need consent from your mum, otherwise any free clinics you might find will be moot. I see you're in the US, and the age for taking T based on informed consent is 18. I don't know of any clinics in Oregon, but hopefully someone else will. You might be more likely to get the attention of other people from Oregon if that was in your thread title -- if you think of a way you'd like to change the title of your thread to incorporate that, just say so and I (or another mod) can take care of that.

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Guest Donna Jean

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I concur......

Being under 18 will require parental or guardian's consent.

As far as payment...there are many free clinics or gender type clinics that will work with you...I understand that Portland is very Trans friendly...

I have no idea what PDX, Outside In, or Smyrk are....sorry....

Donna Jean

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I live about 250 miles away from Portland, so I'm not super familiar with things around there, but I'm going to be seeing Dr. Becker in Milwaukie (about 15 minutes away from Portland) for hormone stuff. I just checked on her website, and it mentions that she's worked with other trans youth before. So it would be worth a shot, I think. She works at Northwest Primary Care. You can get there (or at least pretty close) via TriMet, too.

I have no idea what PDX, Outside In, or Smyrk are....sorry....

PDX = abbreviation for Portland

Outside In = clinic for homeless and low-income people

SMYRC = Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center, basically a drop-in center for LGBTQ youth

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I have no information about Portland, however for clarification, is it that you're looking for a doctor to write the script after you get your letter? Or info about prescription payment?

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You'll probably need consent from your mum, otherwise any free clinics you might find will be moot. I see you're in the US, and the age for taking T based on informed consent is 18. I don't know of any clinics in Oregon, but hopefully someone else will. You might be more likely to get the attention of other people from Oregon if that was in your thread title -- if you think of a way you'd like to change the title of your thread to incorporate that, just say so and I (or another mod) can take care of that.

As of two days ago my brother-in-law is now my legal guardian, he can sign off anything I need. All I need is a doctor to prescribe and give me the hormones (and apparently I must also get blood work from a doctor beforehand). And yes, if you could incorporate "in PDX" in the subject line, that would be awesome. thank you.

Being under 18 will require parental or guardian's consent.

As far as payment...there are many free clinics or gender type clinics that will work with you...I understand that Portland is very Trans friendly...

As I said above I have a legal guardian living with me, no worries. PDX is very GLBT friendly.

At Liam- I called Sara Becker's the other day, and they turned me down on giving me hormone treatment, even though I have both my mom and my legal guardian with me right now. crazy. But I will check out Smyrk. that's actually my last option next to In Other Words, which is only a coffee shop/bookstore that might be able to provide me some direction or information.

Man, I'm exhausted from typing all that! I'm gonna go make pancakes. peace

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And yes, if you could incorporate "in PDX" in the subject line, that would be awesome. thank you.

It's done. The all-caps got changed to not-all-caps, though, sorry. Dunno why.

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