Can we go without? Yes. We'll have mood swings like most people when they have hormone fluctuations and depending on the person depression, anxiety, generally feeling yucky. Ect.

For how long? I mean technically forever? Our bodies still produce hormones naturally (with some surgical exceptions) we won't die but might be miserable enough to want to.

Can you be denied? State/insurance dependant tbh. Where I live hell no, in a red state yeah definitely.

And same with non-cooperative docs, some just won't help. (for anyone looking for help look into planned parenthood. They're great and do hormones for trans people.)

Anyway I've never had a shortage bc hormones are pretty common for cis people too, they just don't know or don't understand when they're taking hormones.