Endometriosis charity hire a TW as CEO

[IdleAnimations]

Absolutely horrific.

“Outrage as charity for women's condition appoints trans woman as CEO”
https://mol.im/a/12742595

Reminds me of the man who lied about being female and head up Rape Crisis Scotland. It’s all for power, control and affirmation by utilising the most vulnerable women to do so.

If you look at their website, this is an extremely small charity with an income of a few thousand pounds a year. It seems to engage very little with the issue of endometriosis and appears to be mostly interested in promoting trans rights.

My post got deleted for literally posting this article which has a statement from the charity founder who is a trans activist which makes it more understandable why she refuses to say woman and hired Steph.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12742595/Outrage-charity-womens-condition-appoints-trans-woman-CEO.html

Interesting it got deleted, not sure how a statement with no comment is an issue. Scary times with the censorship of women.

What @IdleAnimations said.

Yeah I feel the same whenever I see a man taking a woman’s place, Steph.

Sod that...

I had endometriosis and adenomyosis before menopause and I was in chronic, often unbearable pain for decades.

There is also so much ignorance still in the medical professional still (took me forever to get a proper diagnosis and I was dismissed for years...).

The last thing we need is someone who has never had a period in their life telling me about endometriosis...

The CEO of that organisation should be a woman who has experienced the pain and frustration of having that type of condition.

This is beyond ridiculous.

Just like I would feel silly as a woman being the CEO of a prostate cancer charity...sometimes we just have to use common sense and not this current bizarre desire to be as self-righteous as possible and come up with this type of nonsense.

And this is why I am finding it hard to consider voting Labour . I was a member for years and will not accept this clown as a woman. Steph has a nasty side as well and dismissed one of the young men on twitter who allege that they were groomed and sexually abused by members of an Youth LGBT charity when they were care leavers. Steph is NOT a nice person.

Steph also wrote a nasty blog directed at @TinselAngel and Trans Widows Voices saying that she and other trans widows are playing the victim.

Unless this charity has been awarded a hefty grant from somewhere, it seems more like a vanity post rather than something doing more than a couple of leaflets/speaking gigs to support their existence.

It had income <£10k in 21/2 (accounts for the year to 31 March aren't filed yet).

I don't have a problem with a bloke having the top post of a charity championing women's health but I would expect a very strong CV to underpin whatever the role might be.

This charity seems to be utterly unfit for purpose.

The good news is that the EDI Vampire will shortly be consuming it from the inside out.
I give it 18 months, tops.

Hopefully there is An Actually Useful Org for Actual Women with Endometriosis.

If anyone can recommend one I will immediately donate a fiver, inspired by Steph.

Great idea. If anyone has one they’d recommend I’d also happily donate to that so women have the help they need.

https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1723995794628325593

Tbh the whole thing seems to be a trans vanity project and Stephanie appointment just a token back slap.

I would have zero problem if the CEO of an endometriosis charity was a man with a background in female reproductive health or an experienced charity CEO bought in to offer expertise and experience but Steph appears to have neither - or indeed any - such qualifications.

The Endometriosis Foundation seems to have replaced the word ‘woman’ with the word ‘individual’, as in ‘Individuals with Endometriosis’ (which is ironic because one of the reasons Endo sufferers have struggled to get a timely diagnosis is due to systemic sexism- women as a class have been ignored in favour of the default male at worse and deprioritised at best).
The website is pink and has many pictures of women, but the word that refers to us appears to be verboten:

https://www.theendometriosisfoundation.org/understanding-endometriosis

Endometriosis UK have gone for ‘women and people assigned female at birth’, they provide peer to peer listening services and group support, so unless anyone can suggest a third option I will to donate to Endometriosis UK.

https://www.endometriosis-uk.org/get-support

I think ‘CEO’ is exaggerating the role a bit.

From last year’s accounts there are no paid employees and the biggest expenditure was on a charity skydive, from which funds were presumably raised. Annual income is about 8k.

if you grabbed 4 runners with charity places at the London Marathon it’s likely that they would have raised a similar amount.

It's crazy

I said to my GP about 8 years ago I thought I had endo, they said there was nothing they could do
This year I changed doctors, and they sent me for an ultrasound. It's so advanced it's visible on the ultrasound, my ovaries are kissing (with scar tissue, my bowel and bladder are involved and they've said it's significant pelvic, bowel and bladder endo

Wait time for a consultant because the private hospital can't do the op? A year

MrShady 💐

On the plus side we have three of these centres in the NW near me which is where I'll be going as it needs a bowel surgeon in theatre, but the wait list for all 3 is around a year

https://elht.nhs.uk/news-and-media/news/national-accreditation-elht-specialist-endometriosis-service

Julie....Bindel has written about it in the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/14/only-women-should-run-womens-charities/

https://archive.ph/5T0fy archive

All the best to you @MrShady

This isn't the same Steph person who seems to treat the police as their private security detail and keeps reporting women on social media platforms, is it?