I'm done with the Zoe COVID study

I'm tired so hear me out, but when I read "50% of us..." Knowing it was about menopause for a split tired second I though "what only 50% of women go through menopause, surely not?!" And then I realised my error 😳

But genuinely it can be confusing when people start to write things like this for what is very clearly a women's health issue. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Firstly charge your phone!!!

Secondly, I think they are just listing the criteria by which you are automatically emailed for the survey. One of them being that you have identified as female in the app (ie that you ticked the female box). I expect that they would deal with any male-bodied respondents appropriately

Yep I've been feeling the same lately, and thinking of emailing them as well. I used to do the daily reports, for me AND the kids, pretty religiously (how much of this due to my female socialisation telling me I should "do the right thing for everyone"? - DH was always much more lax about his!), but after being asked for my "gender" for the health studies and then this, I now think - why bother if they clearly aren't fussed about scientific facts?

Out of interest, which email address did you use to write to them - was it the [email protected] ? I also noticed it was quite hard to find out how to contact them - although I get lots of emails from them, they don't contain any contact info for suggestions, complaints or whatever!

(I also agree they should have a "normal for me" option - I get fairly regular headaches, of a particular type so I know those are "my normal", but still got told to go for a Covid test every time I reported one, so had to choose between reporting accurately and raising unnecessary "possible Covid" flags, or deliberately missing them out of my reporting, which didn't seem right!).

"50% of us will go through menopause"
Agh

Me too for exactly the same reason OP.

So they are fine with including male-bodied people who identify as women in their menopause study? Would they experience a menopause? I doubt that very much.

Given that this is medical research, the drift in the meaning of words is truly troubling.

I once told it my PMT symptoms and it asked me to take a covid test. There should have been a 'this is normal for me' or 'I know the reason for this' option in the answers.

See also hangovers, DOMS etc.

Agree. How can their studies be given any credit when they're not even marking out biological males and females. It's a hard no from me!

Well… I was kicked out and was never even thanked or informed.