Testosterone's Controlled Status: "Protect the Kids & Sports" vs Gender Affirming Care

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@unreal24278

If one looks at why/how the USA schedules-controlled substances, you’ll see testosterone shouldn’t be schedule III, schedule V or unscheduled but RX only is more appropriate.

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Given the government, clearly that was their only choice … https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3273&context=dlra

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See AMA recommendation 3 published 1990. @RT_Nomad

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Reasonable chronological summary of the feedback from federal agencies/AMA leading up to 1990 regardless of the opinion made by the author. Quite a read to go back through testimony and findings of DHHS, FDA, DEA, AMA at the time. @RT_Nomad

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Until 1988, steroids could be purchased over the counter. Relatively cheaply, too, thanks to chemist Russell Marker’s discovery in the 1940s that two types of wild yam indigenous to Mexico—barbasco and cabeza de negro—could be synthesized into sex hormones. A few critics warned Congress against making steroids illegal. “The medical facts do not support scheduling,” Edward Langston of the American Medical Association told a Senate committee in the spring of 1989. “First, anabolic steroids hav…

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[image] When Marker went to Mexico City in January 1942, the U.S. Embassy advised him to leave immediately because of widespread anti-American sentiment fueled by World War II. Instead, Marker took a bus to Orizaba, changed to the local bus to Cordoba, and, on the way, recognized the stream described in the botany text. By the stream, he found a country store owned by Alberto Moreno, a native Mexican who did not speak English. Despite the language barrier, Moreno was enlisted to find some ca…