At least 50% of men get vaginal thrush

I agree 100%. It’s been pointed out many times how this nonsense disadvantages the very people, eg with poor language or reading skills, who most need clear and accurate information.

I noticed the link didn’t work when I tried it. Maybe adults at McMaster’s desperately trying to repair the university’s reputation!

Just because you had no idea men could catch vaginal thrush it doesn’t meant there is some comms blunder. You are just learning a new biological fact.

This reminds me of how the transvaginal scan thread went.

^This.
Vaginal thrush is just a yeast overgrowth and women can give it to their partners. In men it is often symptomless and after the woman gets it treated, he can then give it back to her. When men have symptoms, it’s called jock itch. It’s the exact same infection.

It is why whenever you get vaginal thrush all your sexual partners should get treatment for it too and you should throughly clean any sex toys.

Well it seems any thought I had that it was a lone misguided associate professor is out the window - Helen Joyce talks about the involvement of a McMaster prof in the whole gender medicine question...

https://x.com/HJoyceGender/status/1958066813662638295

"After criticism of his reviews showing that gender interventions are based on no good evidence, the man who coined the phrase "evidence based medicine" now says that when there's no good evidence supporting an intervention, you should go with what the patient says they want. 2/3"

So do they mean people (all humans) or do they mean women?

Here's the tweet....

That thought occurred to an Era and there was a good answer to that.

The piece is about vaginal thrush. There is no misunderstanding about that - just a huge disregard for clear communication.

What do you think was more plausible here - that they may an unintentional comms blunder which they failed to correct after being alerted to it? Or that ideology governed their actions and they deleted a tweet sooner than address it, while leaving the piece material up. If you watch the video, they definitely mean “women,” they just can’t bring themselves to use the word.

My partner has caught Trish from me on more than one occasion. Could it be that it is called vaginal thrush as this was the source of the infection?

Even if this is the case, it highlights the problems caused by the use of ‘people’ when discussing sex specific conditions and issues

Still, according to those figures it's 100% of women and 50% of men - or equivalent - which seems an awful lot.

@Valeriekat and what 3 would that be?? i'm in canada and each province has at least one big name well positioned university. some offer medicine most don't, most canadian universities are very good.

I would read that as men becoming infected with vaginal thrush on their penises based on the microbiology of the thrush.
kind of like how mothers nipples become infected with thrush from babies mouths.

I thought there were only 3 decent universities in Canada!

Perhaps they should have stopped modernising, at least just a bit?

Sadly, the page and video are still there. 13seconds in they still have the claim about 75% of people.

They’ve not rethought this at all.

If you search machealthsci on Twitter (don't choose to go to their account) and click on latest, it will include a lot of the replies.

The tweet - and the webpage linked to by the tweet, were probably just transcribed by a drone who didn't actually listen to the talk where the silliness was said - and the talk was by an assistant professor, a young female asian professor, like so many young women trying to be kind and inclusive and in the process letting her brain fall out. I think she should get a good talking to.

I hope the video has been removed - so embarrassing.

I have now tried on 3 devices and the tweet has disappeared.

I regret that I didn’t see what the comments said.

TBF DH suffers dreadfully with vaginal yeast infections. They make me very grumpy.

(He suffers from PMT as well.)

McMaster is a prestigious & well regarded medical school that was a pioneer in modernising medical education.

There’s a medical school there as well, isn’t there? Alarming.

It’s stuff like this that has me eagerly anticipating retirement.
I can’t be complicit in this active destruction of the public understanding of science and healthcare.
It’s undermining decades of research and effort in comms work in service to an ideology that is being enforced on people.
And, if the research were about candidiasis then it’s fine to discuss “people”. Otherwise, “women”. And come to some form of agreement for a portmanteau term that excludes men.

If you read the article though, it doesn't mention penises/ penis havers it just talks about vaginas/vulvas.

My bad. I misread as 5%. My brain couldn’t cope with the insane %. 😬

No, it appears to be legit.

It’s about “combating misinformation” like “BBC Verify” is.