Just thinking on here, when males transition they should read up on risks or be told by their doctors for whats relevant to them.
But in fairness to them they don't actually have any reason to read up on the same for females transitioning nor children.
It strikes me that if you are advocating for drugs for different interest groups you do need to have awareness of this information and where there is weakness in data. But maybe this is something thats simply overlooked by many as the assumption is made that 'if its ok for me, it has to ok for others'. Except it might not be as each separate interest group has very different treatment in practice.
Just as we see in general medicine in every other field, womens' bodies are either overlooked as being different or simply treated as 'small men' which we aren't.
This lack of awareness of how research in womens health lags so far behind men is a problem across the board and certainly isn't restricted to trans medicine.
This is always irrelevant to a transwomans lived experience as its not something they have to deal with. They still remain the default on which studies are much more common and have larger sources of information from which to draw.
There isn't anything malicious in this lack of understanding. I doubt its entered the heads of a lot.
But neither is the desire for proper research and follow up studies on transmen and children from women. Its a really important factor that needs to be considered by all in all situations.
How do we change that?