{"id":656753,"date":"2026-03-15T05:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656753\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:51:34","slug":"report-children-may-be-able-to-buy-cross-sex-hormones-online-without-prescription-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656753\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Children may be able to buy cross-sex hormones online without prescription | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The Center Square) \u2013\u00a0A new report from Do No Harm reveals that American children may be able to buy harmful cross-sex hormones from online pharmacies \u2013 including foreign-based ones \u2013 without prescriptions, with Do No Harm calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take action.<\/p>\n

Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that the report \u201creveals how online pharmacies may enable minors to obtain cross-sex hormones with alarming ease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miceli said told The Center Square that \u201cgender-confused kids should not be able to purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom websites listing online vendors across the globe to marketplaces for \u2018homebrewed\u2019 hormones, we found a multitude of troubling pathways that appear to bypass basic safeguards and regulatory oversight,\u201d Miceli said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese hormones carry significant risks, including effects that can be irreversible,\u201d Miceli said.<\/p>\n

Miceli said that he and Do No Harm \u201curge the FDA and other federal agencies to investigate any potential unlawful sellers and, where appropriate, for states to do the same when their laws are being violated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting minors from unsafe and unregulated access to powerful cross-sex hormones must remain a priority,\u201d Miceli said.<\/p>\n

In its report<\/a><\/strong>, Do No Harm outlines a number of different online pharmacies offering hormones and distribution networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For instance, DIYHRT.Market \u2013 which stands for Do It Yourself Hormone Replacement Therapy \u2013 is a database \u201cof pharmacies and \u2018homebrewers,\u2019\u201d according to Do No Harm<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cthat appear to lack proper safeguards preventing minors from accessing cross-sex hormones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another website, HRT Cafe, is \u201ca resource website listing \u2018unregulated\u2019 pharmacies and hormone vendors that do not require prescriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

On its website, HRT Cafe says that the pharmacies it lists \u201cobtain medications prepared by actual, regulated pharmaceutical manufacturers and resell them without a prescription.\u201d<\/p>\n

Children may even be accessing hormones from foreign vendors.<\/p>\n

Do No Harm\u2019s report shows that MedsMex \u2013 a Mexican pharmacy that ships to the U.S. \u2013 says on its website: \u201cNo prescription to purchase any medicines in our pharmacy. By ordering from Medsmex you are agreeing that you are only purchasing for your own personal use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Vanuatu-based Inhouse Pharmacy is a \u201cforeign online pharmacy that boasts a dedicated product webpage for transgender-related drugs and states that it is \u2018permitted\u2019 to process orders without prescriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do No Harm noted that the \u201cinventory, payment processes, and even the domain names\u201d of the online pharmacies it lists in the report are subject to changing.<\/p>\n

Do No Harm also said in its report that it could not confirm that all the pharmacies it listed \u201clack prescription or age verification requirements,\u201d but that several pharmacies “explicitly state that they do not require prescription to purchase their products.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUse of exogenous hormones like estrogen and testosterone carries a variety of dangerous side effects, including increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and certain cancers,\u201d the report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren should not be exposed to these substances\u201d without a medically justified and evidence-based reason \u201csuch as treating hypogonadism,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Do No Harm has been vocal in the past about the dangers of providing \u201cgender-affirming care,\u201d including cross-sex hormones to minors, as The Center Square previously reported<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013\u00a0A new report from Do No Harm reveals that American children may be able to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":651428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[210,1142,1060,1571,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-656753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-medication","11":"tag-national","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116231634094172901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}