Not to mention that when you're going to be hospitalized for gender affirming surgery and probably other surgeries too, your doctor almost always requires you to stop HRT. If I recall correctly this is because of how it affects *blood clotting* *which is a huge COVID problem*
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I mean that's why the having to pee, it's a diuretic, it's supposed to be draining the fluid from your body to relieve pressure
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That's more or less how it was discussed in a pharmacology class I took in grad school. The focus was on how it lowers blood pressure by acting on the ion channels in the kidneys (which is why people on it crave salt and need to be careful with potassium).
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The anti-androgen effects were discussed as an afterthought. Though it did segue into talking about anti-androgen therapy being used to repress male pattern baldness. So, I'm not surprised to see anti-androgens being proposed for COVID, they're already widely available.
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