Listened to the interview, well done Emma!
Jodie comes across as vulnerable and suffering from mental health on top of the physical issues…
Obviously pro inclusivity to the far end of the scale. Knows Steph through this and asked a favour as she knows Steph is CEO of another charity.
She’s ill, she’s a single Mum, she’s a student. Fair enough, she needs help. But she and the trustees have a responsibility to appoint someone who is going to advocate for the women seeking the service, put their needs first and make sure that charitable donations received are spent responsibly on the core aims of the charity.
There is a direct conflict of interest with Steph as already CEO of a trans charity and a trans activist.
Which means that even when asked about the millions of women suffering, Steph’s number one priority was the few thousand trans men, non binary and men with the condition. Not women.
Ergo Steph is not able to carry out the role.
As for Jodie’s proclamations about endometriosis not being a gynaecological disorder. There is recent research on it being inflammatory and systemic and the aetiology is not defined. But it isn’t up to Jodie to redefine the whole condition, based on a handful of papers, without consensus from the medical community. She appears to have done this both on WH and on the charity website.