Men can get Ovarian Cancer !

Then why is hermaphroditism listed in the ICD-10 (International classification of diseases) under Q56.0?

I'm sorry, but you can't just deny a scientific fact to suit your narrative.

Yes but they’re not actually ‘men’

Trans men can get ovarian cancer.

Let’s hope a news paper picks this up…. The charity needs challenging on the language used!

Exactly! And I think the previous poster who answered my question is right - they have women for pushovers.

Transmen are WOMEN, @MrsSunshine2b .

"people with ovaries can get ovarian cancer." is the most controversial statement. ONLY WOMEN get ovarian cancer.

Saying women can get ovarian cancer is the less controversial, and most proper way.

As women, saying 'people with ovaries' is deeply dehumanising and offensive. If you can't see that, then I don't know what to tell you. OP is already going through cancer for something ONLY women can get, and she not even granted being recognised as a woman by these misogynistic organisations!

Differences of Sexual Development is extremely rare@mindutopia . 0.7% of the population.

And, these people usually know very early on what they have and are educated and prepared by doctors from childhood. There is never any confusion with them because they like anyone with a condition, know all about it as they live it.

We are not 'idiots', @hydriotaphia , of course as women we get genuinely offended at that! Why don't you understand that?!? The idiots are the dehumanising, misogynistic lowlife arseholes who say "people with ovaries".

Yes, that would be a fair compromise.

No, saying women with ovaries is the least confusing way.

Of course any normal woman would be offended by your suggested wording. Charities and health depts just need to say women....with.....ovaries.

It is THAT simple!

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. People are being seriously exploited.

Good luck I had a hysterectomy last year followed by 'mop up' chemo. Am now in remission.
got extremely exhausted towards the end of the chemo but no other side effects.....at the time! However whilst the chemo cured the cancer, it did also cause major problems with low platelets and severe anaemia, etc so just make sure you keep asking questions about your blood results during chemo and immediately afterwards.

Exactly. That Planned Parenthood “information” should be filed right alongside the “Flat Earth Evidence” some spout….

What nonsense. Planned parenthood (which is in the US by the way) also say that doctors make a decision to assign you a sex at birth and that most people have a gender identity by the age of 2 or 3. Not going to believe anything else they say. Let alone the fact that intersex is an outdated term.

Bull dust.

• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is the most common cause of DSDs
• The incidence of CAH is 1 in 15,000

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1015520-overview?form=fpf

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/whats-intersex#:~:text=Being%20intersex%20is%20also%20more,ways%20someone%20can%20be%20intersex.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this.
I had a hysterectomy 4 weeks ago and I was on ward with ladies like you, one had had to have a total hysterectomy, plus a few other bits removed… very poorly lady and she’s been blasted with chemo while open on the operating table (she said) how awful!
I can not imagine where charities are coming from asking this question!! I know it’s pride month but this is political correctness gone ape shit!! It’s utter bat shit! Once again the world doesn’t care about offending women, it’s more concerned with whether it’s offending the trans community!

No it's not.
No one is a hermaphrodite - the definition is someone with a functional set of both gonads.

There are babies born with disorders of sexual development. They might have residual tissue of the other gonad. They might have a slight abnormality of physiology -in boys, the urethra might open slightly up the shaft rather than at the tip. There might be chromosomal disorders. But crucially, the majority these DSDs are sex dependent.
DSDs are common. That doesn't negate the categories of male and female.

Well, it's a medical fact that 1 in 2000 babies are born as a hermaphrodite.

Well, if we're going to get technical, in true hermaphroditism there is both ovarian and testicular tissue present. Now, if such a person looks like a male and never suspects the presence of ovarian tissue, it is easy to see how this can become lethaly advanced before detection, especially as the tissue would be subject to all the wrong hormones, so more prone to carcinogenesis.

Of course, we're talking about 1 in 2000 people here, but still...

Friend at school wrote 'the penis enters the anus' on her GCSE science paper and got laughed at.

I'm not sure this type of shit would help.

Only women have ovaries. Only females.

Let's acknowledge that and save lives.

Honestly. Do people really still believe this nonsense?

I've heard that Canada is one of the worst places for this. But at least the madness is sexually equal, in the UK this nonsense only happens when it comes to the word "women". Men's products and cancer campaigns keep the word men.

It's probably worse over here. Our local health authority was advising "people with a prostate" to have a PSA test for prostate cancer.