It's the Guardian but it's great. And so familiar. I hadn't seen the analogy between the anti abortion movement and the wellness industry. Yet more ways to try to both control and keep women ignorant about their own bodies and health.
This book sounds amazing! If I had a daughter I'd be giving it to her for one of her teen birthdays.
There are many points I feel that are pertinent to the trans issue, namely the lies young women (all
youngsters but the drugs appear to have more devastating impact on girls/women) are being told about their bodies through medical transition. Such as vaginal atrophy.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/08/jennifer-gunter-gynaecologist-womens-health-bodies-myths-and-medicine?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other
*Final thoughts
Power and health are linked. You can’t be an empowered patient and get the health outcomes you want with inaccurate information and half-truths.
I’ve been attacked for coming out against the misinformation and disinformation that are presented to women as worthy of consideration.
True choice – weighing your personal risk-benefit ratio and making a decision for your body based on that information – requires facts. And it is this quest to give women facts that keeps me up at night. It is why I keep fighting.
The patriarchy and snake oil have had a good run, but I’m done with how they negatively affect and weaponise women’s health. So I am not going to stop swinging my bat until everyone has the tools to be an empowered patient and those who seek to subjugate women by keeping them from facts about their bodies have shut up and taken a seat in the back of class. That’s my vagenda.*