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Womens health week in Australia ...

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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 08/09/2020 05:01

... or, one of these things is not like the other one.

What women’s health advice do we think the, er, odd man out, might need?

Screening for cervical cancer? Menopause advice? Help with preventing pregnancy? Endometriosis or PCOS? Access to abortion?

Womens health week in Australia ...
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Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/09/2020 09:56

It reminds me of Jess Bradley's Impossible Vagina.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9avBQiO6WBA

littlbrowndog · 08/09/2020 09:41

And why no pics of women’s genitals in the penis pics

Do they respect men more than women ?

Can’t women identify as men ?

littlbrowndog · 08/09/2020 09:37

Its completely bonkers

Do these people who do these campaigns not look at themselves and think. I am such an idiot and have lost all touch with reality

And how rude and disrespectful to women and girls they are

So rude

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 08/09/2020 09:30

No vulva shaped penises then? Quelle surprise!

Yes, that is very blatant, isn't it? And it's always TWAW, not TMAM. No pretence of concern for women, whether transgender or not.

Gwynfluff · 08/09/2020 09:30

Especially odd in the penis picture as the biggest rise in teens is female to male transition.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 08/09/2020 09:27

And I used to go to Marie Slopes/FPA because they were female doctors and nurses. Does this mean that their policy for employing women only has changed?

I don't know about Australia, but British institutions are riddled with this nonsense. Transwomen can 'affirm their femininity' by working in all kinds of women's services, including shelters for survivors of rape or domestic violence. Too bad if their presence deters traumatised women from using the service.

Sexnotgender · 08/09/2020 09:27

@umbel

No vulva shaped penises then? Quelle surprise!
Indeed. Bigots.
umbel · 08/09/2020 09:16

No vulva shaped penises then? Quelle surprise!

inthebleakmidwinteriwouldsing · 08/09/2020 09:11

From their website Hmm

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Sexnotgender · 08/09/2020 09:03

Urgh, that’s so grim.

SunsetBeetch · 08/09/2020 09:02

I am SO FUCKING SICK of this bullshit Angry

Winesalot · 08/09/2020 08:52

And I used to go to Marie Slopes/FPA because they were female doctors and nurses. Does this mean that their policy for employing women only has changed? That you can be a transwoman and be employed in women only services?

I relied on FPA/Marie Slopes as a young person. This would have made those years very difficult if it hadn’t been a female doctor or nurse.

Winesalot · 08/09/2020 08:48

I used to have to wait to get my appointment at Marie Slopes in Sydney. I guess the appointment times just got that little bit more competitive..... and for what services exactly?

Or .... is the penis supposed to be one that is created for a transman?

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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 08/09/2020 08:16

If it’s any consolation to Australians, the Jean Hailes Foundation still have a handle on who has periods, pregnancy and menopause.

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BlackWaveComing · 08/09/2020 07:57

@DancelikeEmmaGoldman

I just had this moment where I thought, “are we really, in 2020, having to discuss whether women have penises?” How did we reach this point of complete batshittery?
It's utterly insane.

So baffling to watch a segment of society literally lose touch with reality.

ThinEndoftheWedge · 08/09/2020 07:55

This is abuse. Pure and simple.

Kit19 · 08/09/2020 07:43

Jesus fucking Christ

how are these ppl not utterly embarrassed at themselves? Men do not need abortions

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imhereforthesanity · 08/09/2020 07:39

Is this for real? It has youth mentioned, is it material for children?

ahumanfemale · 08/09/2020 06:55

So what does Marie Stopes do if someone with a penis comes in requesting abortion counselling or pills? For themselves, because they're a woman. Do they actually waste their time and see that person to validate their true self rather than see a woman who is pregnant and stressed?

Bmidreams · 08/09/2020 06:51

Cock and balls. As if.

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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 08/09/2020 06:50

I just had this moment where I thought, “are we really, in 2020, having to discuss whether women have penises?” How did we reach this point of complete batshittery?

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Tezza1 · 08/09/2020 06:40

Sorry, again I'm going completely off topic, but it reminds me of Norman Gunston and his phrase "Hi there you funky dudes and foxy chicks." So, in retrospect, we probably used the word chicks derisively.

Anyway, sorry, and I will stop derailing your post, which is extremely important.

Tezza1 · 08/09/2020 06:34

"I've never heard it used commonplace" They wouldn't dream of using "Sheilas" – but that's Australian and, to me, more acceptable.

I remember back in the late 70s there was it a very brief use of the term chicks, but thankfully it didn't seem to catch on – or at least not in the circles in which I mixed.

Thehollyandtheirony · 08/09/2020 06:23

Someone’s gone rogue with the plasticine.
An odd looking penis at a jaunty angle is not a vulva.

squeekums · 08/09/2020 06:06

Haven't seen that in SA. Would go down like a lead balloon at DD school.

Gals? Has that ever been a normal term in Aus? I've never heard it used commonplace