Guardian article on PCOS Sunday 22 June

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Did anyone read this? If you go to paragraph 8, there is a link to a lunatic site in which women who now identify as men try to blame it on their PCOS.

Guardian journalists just can’t help themselves can they?

Got a link please?

I kept trying to add it but couldn’t post. I wondered if there was something stopping me?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/22/i-was-diagnosed-with-pcos-and-was-soon-drowning-in-misinformation
trying again

What? The link in para 8 goes to an article where someone raises the possibility that “PCOS might be considered an intersex condition “?!?!? FFS

Surely it’s very much the single female sex who have ovaries - a necessary requirement of having PCOS?

Don't they also consider redheads trans too? Or was it intersex? As an old boot who has lived with PCOS since puberty I'm not impressed by ignorant twits trying to convince me that a hormonal condition that only females experience makes me somehow less female.

twirls PCOS moustache....

The irony of an article complaining about misinformation carrying a link to more misinformation… insulting misinformation at that.

What! I thought that my choice to wear three piece suits for eight months of the year was because they kept me warm. Now I know that it's because I am a trans redhead. I'm glad that they have cleared that up for me.

Oh dear I'm both a redhead and have pcos. I wonder what I'm supposed to be 🤔 I mean I carried and birthed 2 dc and was always under the impression that I was female 🤷‍♀️

Reminds me of this thread from a couple of years ago! TRAs make the most ridiculous claims. I honestly think they want to see just how far they can push things 😡

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4837643-pcos-and-devastated-to-be-called-intersex

@GreenwichPips what they want is to use women with PCOS to boost the % of people who have a DSD (Intersex). The higher the % the more they can say there are more than two sexes etc….

Funny that PCOS only affects women.

For someone complaining about a lack of information, the author of that piece didn’t exactly do much to point the readers to reputable sources of information, like the NHS www.nhs.uk/conditions/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos/ or Verity https://www.verity-pcos.org.uk

i was diagnosed with it in 1985, it’s extremely likely mum had it too. It seems that medical thinking hasn’t really progressed in that time - I too was told to take the pill to manage symptoms and come back when i wanted to get pregnant. Mum got even worse treatment in the late 1950s (“facial hair isn’t an illness and I’ve got actual sick people in my waiting room, NMP.”). I did actually get electrolysis on the nhs as a teenager, but when i went to uni in a different city and registered there I was told that health authority didn’t cover ‘cosmetic procedures’.

There’s a very valid debate to be had around the priorities of research into women’s health conditions, and that could have been a much better article had it been the focus rather than “I fell down a Google rabbit hole and got confused”.