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   The Usual Suspect (malakai@the.usualsuspects.lol)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 03:52:58 JST The Usual Suspect

   No way this isn’t a prank article written by a right winger who somehow sneaked into the editorial pipeline, right?

   But when the pharmacy handed me the bottles with my medication, I looked at the label that read “produced by Teva Pharmaceuticals” and my heart stopped.

   Teva, a word meaning “nature” in Hebrew, is an Israeli-owned pharmaceutical company

   I was in shock. How could this be? I texted all my medicalized trans sisters on my way home and asked a simple question: “Who makes your hormones?” […] As the responses came, every single one was either Teva, or a company that a quick Google search listed as linked to Teva.

   How did this one Israeli company play such a large role in the cross-gender hormone market? How did my body once again find itself as a battleground, a settlement, an ongoing pawn in this Zionist game?

   I later got in touch with a Jewish, anti-Zionist trans student at Mills College. He told me that he had been dedicating the past year of his research to understanding the connections between cross-gender hormone production in the U.S. and in Israel. He told me that he too found out his testosterone was made by Teva

   https://www.them.us/story/israel-hormones-and-transitioning

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 03:52:57 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Hmm so troons are upset that they’ve been absolutely cucked and btfo by the jews?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 04:09:54 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Are a lot of troons jews? It sort of seems that way tbh.
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     The Usual Suspect (malakai@the.usualsuspects.lol)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 04:09:55 JST The Usual Suspect

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     I wanted to start hormone replacement therapy and in that way medically transition. There were many reasons for this decision, but one of them was the realization that growing up Israeli and trans in Jerusalem while being expected to become a Zionist man left an aftermath in my body.

     I needed help to heal, and sensed that growing a rounder, more tender body would help me connect with the justice-loving feminine child inside of me, and that having such a body would help me grow from that soft place.

     Yet I still secretly wished for a moment that would alleviate me from the difficulties of my past. And I decided the moment of starting hormones would be it.

     bruh…

     https://www.them.us/story/israel-hormones-and-transitioning