Healthcare providers report unprecedented demand for reproductive and gender-affirming medications: ‘We’ve never seen this before’

Summary

Following Trump’s election victory, healthcare providers reported a surge in requests for reproductive and gender-affirming medications, including abortion pills and emergency contraception.

Aid Access, the leading U.S. supplier of abortion pills by mail, received over 5,000 requests within 12 hours, a fivefold increase from a typical day.

Telehealth providers like Wisp and Hey Jane reported spikes in requests for emergency contraception, while QueerDoc saw an influx of trans patients seeking guidance on hormone access.

Providers are advising patients to stock up on medication, emphasizing resilience amid uncertainty about potential rollbacks on abortion and trans rights under a second Trump administration.

  • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    I’m genuinely worried about contraception in general. It’s one of the tick boxes for Project 2025. And I don’t know if that will mean prescription contraception or all of it. Luckily there have been some recent breakthroughs in male contraception that you can buy even if they aren’t marketed as contraception for legal reasons. I’m not normally one to fuck with healthcare that hasn’t been tested and approved, but people will get desperate.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 months ago

      If there’s talk of getting rid of birth control, I’m asking my endometriosis specialist for a hysterectomy. I cannot survive without my birth control. My periods are too heavy and painful for me to function while they’re going on. My specialist is really cool, so she can probably get it done. I will go into debt for it if I have to.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        The way things are going they’ll eventually ban unnecessary procedures that prevent fertility as well unless you’re married and already had multiple kids.

        Your suffering will be the point.

        • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          You right. Just scheduled a hysterectomy consult with my specialist. She’s one of the few specialists in my state who will tie a woman’s tubes with no questions asked. I’m just hoping we can convince my insurance this is medically necessary, but I’ll go into debt if it ensures I won’t ever get a period again and my reproductive organs won’t wreck me. I literally faint from blood loss when on my period and the pain is so bad I can hardly see. Not to mention the wicked ovarian cysts and endometrial growths my body loves to create.