Who gets ovarian cancer?

This hostility to trans men and nb people is exactly why some don't access critical gynae services when they need to.

It's why they ignore the pain and hope for the best, fearing how they will be treated by HCPs.

Inclusive language on healthcare messaging is critical for encouraging them to attend screening, get early symptoms checked out and avoid the worst outcomes.

I am related to a trans man who had ovarian cancer (not my son, who is also trans). The cancer was massive, had spread, and he nearly died. He was a teenager at the time, and not one HCP cared how he identified. They treated him with dignity and respect - as should be the due of every person who needs help.

He was also subjected to medical misogyny in how his fertility was considered more important than making sure all the cancer was gone. They were wrong, and had to reopen his (huge) scar only a few months later to do a the full hysterectomy they had refused him the first time.

Its really obvious they refused to do the hysterectomy because he was trans and they decided he wanted it for gender care reasons. They took the decision his fertility mattered more, despite his (correct) fear that the partial procedure they decided on put him at high risk of cancer recurrence.

It is medical misogny which we need to be fighting. The idea that our fertility is more important than our pain is something so many women have experienced. And guess what, trans guys do too.

That is our enemy. That is what we need to fight.

A 19 yo woman goes to the doctor with classic symptoms of ovarian cysts or cancer and is fobbed off with classic medical misogyny of periods are painful and her symptoms are due to anxiety. Result: life-changing consequences that only a woman can experience.

Enlli Thompson seems to have amazing positivity,despite what has happened to her, and I hope she goes on to live a fulfilling and healthy life.

Then the interview with a Gp who claims to always pay attention to these symptoms. This attentive GP refers only to 'people' with ovarian cancer, as does Cancer Research UK.

49% of PEOPLE are at no risk whatsoever of ovarian cancer. 49% of PEOPLE are never going to have their possible cancer symptoms dismissed as period pains.

WOMEN. Only women get ovarian cancer. Only women have their symptoms dismissed as 'normal' period pains. Only women have severly or increasingly painful periods dismissed as 'normal'. Only women get thrown into menopause by medical treatment. Only women have to live with the extreme consequences of premature aging as a result.

Not just medical misogyny but also medical dishonesty.

BBC News - Ovarian cancer and menopause at 19 mean I can't have kids, but it's changed me for the better
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9wn7w4982o