Just in case you weren’t aware, there’s currently a national shortage of Estradiol patches, the preferred hormone replacement therapy choice for getting some Estrogen into a perimenopausal or menopausal body (those bodies make up 43% of women in the U.S.).

Last week, while calling around to various pharmacies trying to find my Estradiol patches in stock, I started wondering to myself is there any correlation between this national Estradiol Patch shortage and this, ahem, administration?

Don’t get me wrong, my inner-voice question was not : Did this administration do something to cause the shortage like interfering with pharmaceutical companies?

My inner voice question was: Have women felt so damn barraged by trickle-down misogynistic practices of this administration led by King Misogyny himself, that we just need more hormones to deal with it all. Is our inability to cope with any more of this tradwife-marketing, abortion-rights-attacking, female-journalists-belittling, voting rights and DEI-dismantling garbage causing more women to decide they need an “I’m-going-to-scream patch” slapped on their upper buttocks every week?

I searched the web to see if I could find proof of my hypothisis, but AI Summary, “Sums” as I like to call him, says the cause of the national shortage is because the black box warning of HRT drugs was removed in 2025, causing greater demand.

But I think ‘ol Sums is wrong here, so I made up my own chart. One that reflects my personal conspiracy theory that with every day Trump has been in office, women have needed more hormones to deal with this insanity.

I modeled my chart on some other fabricated (and funny) Spurious Correlations charts of events which also do not correlate, but very well could.