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What is Valerie?

Valerie is a community-run directory that tracks where trans people can source hormones and related medications outside formal medical channels. It focuses on sourcing information—pharmacies and homebrewers, their status, and where they ship—rather than on how to use the medications. The site states plainly that it does not give advice or opinions on using these drugs; its aim is to help people make their own informed decisions.

What you'll find there

• Product categories covering estradiol (pills, patches, injections, gels, sprays), anti-androgens (spironolactone, cyproterone, bicalutamide), 5-alpha reductase inhibitors (finasteride, dutasteride), hair-regrowth combinations (minoxidil at several strengths), and progesterone.
• Vendor listings split into pharmacies and homebrewers, each with a status such as Active, Suspended or Closed, plus the country it ships from and where it ships to.
• A dated changelog showing new listings and status changes, so you can see how recently a vendor's situation was updated.
• Supporting resources, including guides and QR codes, and a rebrand FAQ.

How the two vendor types differ

A practical scenario

Suppose you live in Canada and want to avoid customs delays. Filtering the homebrewer list for vendors shipping from Canada narrows the field quickly—Calyx Labs is listed as Canadian-based and shipping within Canada, while a France-based homebrewer like AstroVials is marked Closed. Checking the changelog date next to a listing tells you whether that status is current or months old.

Next step

Before relying on any listing, check its status and the date of the most recent update, since vendors open, suspend and close frequently. Treat the directory as a starting point for your own verification, not as a recommendation.

How can I check if an online pharmacy or homebrewer is currently active or closed?

Check the vendor's status entry rather than the vendor's own website. On Valerie, every pharmacy and homebrewer is listed with an explicit status label — Active or Closed — alongside where it ships from and where it ships to. That status is maintained by the project and updated over time, so it reflects recent community knowledge rather than a shopfront that may have gone quiet months ago.

H3 How the status signal works in practice

The page pairs a static vendor card with a dated changelog. Recent entries show the pattern:

• A vendor moves from Active to Suspended, then later to Closed, as evidence accumulates.
• New vendors and new listings appear with timestamps when they are added.
• A vendor can also return: one entry shows a service going from Closed back to Active.

So "Active" is not a permanent badge. It is the current state of a continuously revised record, and the changelog tells you how fresh that state is.

H3 A concrete check

Suppose you are considering a France-based homebrewer. The listing shows it as Closed, shipping from France to worldwide. That single label should stop you before you send anything. If instead you see Active, read the two shipping fields: "Ships from" tells you the dispatch origin, and "Ships to" tells you whether your country is in scope. A vendor that ships worldwide is not the same as one that ships only within Canada or only to the UK.

H3 Decision criteria

• Status first. Treat Closed or Suspended as a hard stop, regardless of how polished the vendor's own page looks.
• Date second. A status set months ago is weaker evidence than one changed this week. The changelog dates let you judge that.
• Geography third. Match "Ships from" and "Ships to" against your own address before doing anything else.
• Cross-check for high-stakes decisions. Community-maintained trackers can lag. For general harm-reduction and legal context around self-sourcing, Drugs.com and U.S. Food and Drug Administration explain why unverified supply chains carry risk; neither endorses vendors, and neither replaces the status list.

Next step: open the vendor's changelog entry, note the date of the last status change, and only then decide whether to look further.

What are the differences between ordering from a pharmacy versus a homebrewer on Valerie?

Valerie separates its listings into two distinct categories — Pharmacies and Homebrewers — and the differences between them matter more than the label suggests. The site itself states it aims to provide sourcing information only, not advice on how to use medications, so the choice between the two categories is left to you.

Pharmacies

These are established commercial operations, often with long trading histories. From the page evidence:

• 4NRX Pharmacy UK — Hong Kong based, operating over 20 years, ships to the United Kingdom
• Inhouse Pharmacy — Vanuatu-based, operating over 20 years, ships to the US, AU, UK and EU periphery
• United Pharmacies (separate US, UK and NL entries) — Hong Kong based, over 20 years
• Aipctshop and DashPCT — India-based, ship worldwide
• Silhouette Beauty — Portugal-based, ships worldwide

The pattern: pharmacies tend to ship from a fixed country to a defined set of destinations, and several have operated for decades. That longevity is the main practical signal — a pharmacy with 20 years of history has cleared customs and payment hurdles repeatedly.

Homebrewers

These are smaller, individual or small-team operations, usually based in one country:

• Calyx Labs — Canada-based, ships only within Canada
• EstraPen — ships from within the EU
• AstroVials — France-based, now marked Closed
• Felicitas — status moved from Closed to Active

Homebrewers typically ship from within a single region, which can mean faster delivery and fewer customs issues for buyers in that region, but also a narrower reach.

The trade-offs

The changelog on Valerie shows homebrewer statuses shifting repeatedly — AstroVials went Active → Suspended → Closed within days, and Celestial HRT closed in September. Pharmacies in the listing show fewer such swings.

A practical way to decide

Start with where you are. If you are in Canada, Calyx Labs ships domestically; if in the EU, EstraPen does. A domestic shipper avoids international customs entirely, which is often the deciding factor. If you are elsewhere, or want a longer track record, the pharmacy entries with defined ship-to lists are the more predictable route.

Check the current status before ordering — Valerie's changelog is the fastest way to see whether a given source is Active, Suspended or Closed, and that status can change within days.

Which shipping origins and destinations are listed for each vendor on Valerie?

Valerie lists each vendor with a "Ships from" origin and a "Ships to" destination range. The pattern is straightforward: pharmacies tend to ship from a single country or region to a broad set of destinations, while homebrewers often ship from a region rather than a named country and may limit destinations more tightly.

Pharmacies

Homebrewers

What this means in practice

Origin matters mainly for customs risk and delivery time, not for product identity. If you are ordering from the UK, for example, 4NRX and United Pharmacies UK both ship from Hong Kong to the UK, so the practical difference is the vendor's status and catalogue rather than the route. Inhouse Pharmacy is the outlier for destination breadth, covering the US, Australia, the UK and parts of the EU from Vanuatu.

For homebrewers, the destination field is the deciding constraint. Calyx Labs ships only within Canada, so anyone outside Canada cannot use it regardless of availability. EstraPen ships from within the EU, which usually means no customs border for EU buyers, but the listing does not state a destination range, so confirm that directly before relying on it.

Status changes frequently, as the update log shows: AstroVials moved from Active to Suspended to Closed within days, and Celestial HRT and RxAisle are also marked Closed. Treat the origin and destination columns as current only at the time you read them.

A useful next step: filter by your own country first, then check whether the vendor ships from inside your customs area or outside it, and only then look at what the vendor stocks. If your country is not listed as a destination, the vendor is not an option for you even if it ships worldwide to other places.

How does Valerie keep vendor listings and service statuses up to date?

Valerie maintains its listings through a dated changelog that records every addition, removal, and status change as it happens. The homepage shows a running feed of entries with timestamps, so you can see not just what changed but when — for example, a new vendor being added, four listings appearing at an existing one, or a service moving from Active to Suspended and then to Closed.

What the update pattern looks like

• New vendors get an entry when they are first added to the directory.
• New listings at existing vendors are logged individually, sometimes several in a single day.
• Status changes are tracked as transitions: Active → Suspended → Closed, with the time of each change noted.
• Rebrands and structural changes are announced separately, with a pointer to an FAQ and a social thread for follow-up.

How to use this as a reader

Treat the changelog as a freshness signal. Before relying on any vendor entry, check the most recent dated entries for that vendor's name. If a service shows "Closed" or "Suspended," that is the current state as of the timestamp given, not a permanent judgment — vendors can and do move back to Active, as the feed shows. If you are comparing two vendors, sort by their latest status entry rather than by how prominent they are on the page.

The site also publishes a Tor backup and a social account for updates, which is a practical fallback if the main domain is unreachable. For background on why a community-run sourcing directory exists at all, the project's own framing is worth reading directly at Valerie.

What estrogen and anti-androgen product categories are listed on Valerie?

Valerie organizes its listings by medication type rather than by brand, so you can browse by the form you already use or are considering.

Estradiol (estrogen) categories

• Pills
• Patches
• Injections
• Gels
• Sprays

Anti-androgen and related categories

• Spironolactone
• Cyproterone
• Bicalutamide
• 5-alpha reductase inhibitors: finasteride and dutasteride
• Hair regrowth combinations built around minoxidil (2%, 5% and 10%)
• Progesterone under a separate "Miscellaneous" heading

Practically, this structure suits someone comparing routes — for example, weighing injections against gels, or checking whether a particular anti-androgen appears at all — before looking at which pharmacy or homebrewer stocks it. The site separates the two layers: product categories on one side, and suppliers (pharmacies and homebrewers, each with a shipping origin, destination and active/closed status) on the other. That split matters because availability is per-supplier, so a category being listed does not mean every source carries it.

A useful next step is to pick your route first, then filter suppliers by where they ship from and to — the page shows entries such as Hong Kong, India, Vanuatu, Portugal, Türkiye, France, Canada and the EU, with some marked closed. Valerie states it covers sourcing information rather than usage advice, so treat dosing and safety decisions as separate from what you find here. For general trans health context, TransActual is one option.