The situation is getting more complicated every day. We have received another update from the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition, who have confirmed that from now on, only endocrinologists attached to university hospitals are eligible for submitting off-label medication applications for HRT. There are a grand total of three such clinics in the entire country for potentially thousands of transgender patients, and the one in Budapest, the capital, has already announced before the regulation was even published that they will only serve patients under their jurisdiction based on their home address (which is bad considering the city's jurisdiction is divided between more than a dozen hospitals). This is a huge setback as previously any endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist and andrologist with a license to practice in the country was theoretically eligible for submitting applications, so we might be looking at the 1-3-year waiting lists common in Western Europe going forward. This is made even weirder by the fact that existing off-label permits will stay in effect, so patients who are already legally undergoing HRT at a private practitioner can continue to do so, but the same doctor can no longer take on new patients. The only advice the trans self-help group could give me was to personally petition the hospital's board and involve their patient's rights representative, reiterate that I was directed towards them by the Institute in accordance with their new regulations, and keep bothering them, refusing to take no for an answer, until they agree to provide my medically necessary care. As you can imagine, having to de facto become a trans rights advocate is not exactly an encouraging prospect with my social anxiety and non-existent persuasion skills, but my only other option is to start reaching out to foreign private clinics (which I might end up having to do anyway if the waiting lists prove to be as long as I suspect).