Meet the new CEO of Endometriosis South Coast

Is that Steph of steph's place?

Or a different Steph?

Yes fuzzystar, already the health message is incorrect.

Great tweet on this:

x.com/hazelappleyard_/status/1723814732258279903?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

That's what has confused me about their stat.

I have gone back through their socials and can't find any advert for a CEO role - they did advertise for new trustees though so they do advertise for some roles, perhaps not all.....

I looked at Endo South Coast's website but couldn't see anything about Steph joining them. Maybe they don't manage to update it very often. So I couldn't see what his actual role is intended to achieve. And yes, you could appoint a man in a senior role in a charity aimed at women, or children, and he could be very good in it, absolutely the right appointee. But I can't imagine that would be true in this case - why would anyone interested in women's issues try to disrupt Filia?

I'm sure those young women at Endo South Coast are really, really nice and want to be kind. But in doing so they're being very unkind to women. Like so many others.

Thanks for explaining.

They’re a tiny organisation. I suspect this is an unpaid role which Steph has volunteered to do. It’ll give Steph an “in” to all kinds of meetings & conferences. Just imagine the validation!

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/-/charity-details/5148760/financial-history

Steph's LinkedIn profile is very short on detail. 3 years of advocacy, activism and journalism. Steph is 70 now. What was Steph doing between leaving school and launching into this new phase?

I have no idea how big this charity is, but if Steph was invited to become CEO with no open competition for the role, I'm wondering if it's unpaid.

I think that’s what I was getting at! I have had really great male doctors so I wouldn’t necessarily require a women’s advocate to be a cis woman. I do not know all the history of Steph though; that’s true. As someone who does not frequent this part of the forum, I suppose I was just surprised that people thought only women could advocate for women when I know some excellent men who could do great in Steph’s role. It does sound like there’s more to people’s annoyance than that but that wasn’t the angle I was asking from.

I know they don’t have experience. My question was what if they are actually good at advocating? I advocate for parents without having children so why can’t someone without a uterus advocate for people with endo?

People with endo.

Naturally you would think that this misogynist could be good at advocating for women - you clearly support the erasure of women.

It's not 1 in 10 people get endo, it's 1 in 10 women. All women are people, but not all people are women.

1 in 10 people is not the same as 1 in 10 women of reproductive age

That he'll never get endo? Meh, there are worse things in life.

That he'll bite his tongue before using the word woman" in conjunction with endo? Yeah, fuck right off with that shite.

It seems Steph was “invited” to join them as CEO which suggests that it wasn’t an openly advertised role

@Feliciacat "What if Steph just really empathises with women with endo despite not having it? Then Steph would be a fine choice, right?"
It's a good question. I've had many excellent male drs who've made me feel like they really empathize with women. None so much that they felt the need to "become" women.

It's a great relief to see NICE quoting a source that says clearly 'women of reproductive age' and for once women indubitably means female.

Omg wtaf

Who appointed this person? What the hell were they thinking??

They are fully TWAW. Check out this blog in which they directly criticize gender critical feminists. Here's a quote:

"gender critical feminists have started a brutal campaign to strip back trans rights."
endometriosissouthcoast.com/international-womens-day-2021/

And if this person places trans people’s demands ahead of women’s need for clear language that is about women and not ‘uterus havers’ or whatever without centring women, is that ok? Do you really think a diversity champion such as this is about to make sure that women are centred in language needs or will all mention of women and girls be changed to be gender neutral language? Why? What other male diversity champions who take over women’s roles as a trans person has done that previously? Can you name one?

https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/endometriosis/background-information/prevalence/#:~:text=One%20in%2010%20women%20of,is%20about%2030%E2%80%9350%25.

Relevant quote:

• The prevalence is difficult to determine because of variability in clinical presentation. Also, some women with endometriosis may be asymptomatic Hickey et al, 2014; National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2017].
• The only reliable diagnostic test is laparoscopy Hickey et al, 2014]. On average it takes 7.5 years from onset of symptoms to get a diagnosis of endometriosis.
• Endometriosis UK estimates that in the UK:One in 10 women of reproductive age (between puberty and menopause) have endometriosis.
• Endometriosis affects 1.5 million women, a similar number of women affected by diabetes.
• The prevalence of endometriosis in women with infertility is about 30–50%.
• Endometriosis is the second most common gynaecological condition (after fibroids).

Does Steph have any relevant endo medical background?
Any relevance to the role whatsoever?

I can’t see anything in Stephanie job history that qualifies them for this role. I’d be interested to know where it was advertised & what experience was required.

Where is the source for the 1 in 10 people? This seems an odd fact. How many people with a uterus are affected?

That’s the same Steph who organised the protests against FiLiA in Portsmouth a few years ago.

Not a sign of someone who cares about or empathises with women.