Women buying testosterone online after NHS access barriers in Wales

Across Wales, post-menopausal women seeking testosterone — a hormone that can restore libido, energy, and a sense of self — are being turned away by GPs whose prescribing authority depends not on clinical need but on postcode. Faced with a fragmented NHS system and costs they cannot sustain privately, some women are posing as men to purchase the hormone online, exposing themselves to doses up to twelve times the safe threshold and the permanent physical consequences that follow. It is a story as old as medicine itself: when institutions fail to meet human need, human beings find another way —