At least 50% of men get vaginal thrush

[NoBinturongsHereMate]

If you believe the McMaster university campaign to counter health misinformation.

Link to their Tweet: x.com/machealthsci/status/1956000503826952646?

Even being "inclusive" that makes no sense.

They get vaginal thrush because they are women and have vaginas. Men with penise's dont get vaginal thrush because they don't have vaginas.
When will this stupid nonsense end?

Maybe they are referring to woman-who-would like-to-be-men?
Along the same lines as pregnant men.
This is what happens when the english language is changed to accommodate an ideology. Confusion.

Apparently they affect 75% of people at least once in their lifetime! Must let DP know, his vagina might be playing up.

Even then it's nowhere near 75% of people.

Scientifically, biologically and mathematically inaccurate. A university openly displaying it online. 🙄

Poor itchy things. Cider vinegar might help.

WITH 'the mother'

Is this definitely not parody? I mean the absurdity of the stat, the "McMasters" title... I've not looked up McMasters, but without doing so, my first thought genuinely would be that it is!

It would have been accurate if they said 'women', irrespective of what the reader understands the word to mean. Because trans people are rare, and candidiasis can affect neovaginas.

They made it inaccurate unnecessarily. Because it wasn't enough to be inclusive. They had to be seen to be inclusive.

Stupid and ideological. What a coincidence!

Well men can get thrush from having sex with a woman who has it and so actually the post isn't a complete nonsense. I'm not one to stick up for those mangling language due to gender nonsense but it is completely true to say that men can be affected by vaginal thrush (which is not the same as saying men have vaginas)

I love the way that article is part of a campaign to combat misinformation 🙄

It’s about “combating misinformation” like “BBC Verify” is.

No, it appears to be legit.

My bad. I misread as 5%. My brain couldn’t cope with the insane %. 😬

If you read the article though, it doesn't mention penises/ penis havers it just talks about vaginas/vulvas.

It’s stuff like this that has me eagerly anticipating retirement.
I can’t be complicit in this active destruction of the public understanding of science and healthcare.
It’s undermining decades of research and effort in comms work in service to an ideology that is being enforced on people.
And, if the research were about candidiasis then it’s fine to discuss “people”. Otherwise, “women”. And come to some form of agreement for a portmanteau term that excludes men.

It's a major Canadian university - ones of the U15 group, which is roughly equivalent to the UK Russel group.

There’s a medical school there as well, isn’t there? Alarming.

McMaster is a prestigious & well regarded medical school that was a pioneer in modernising medical education.

TBF DH suffers dreadfully with vaginal yeast infections. They make me very grumpy.

(He suffers from PMT as well.)

I have now tried on 3 devices and the tweet has disappeared.

I regret that I didn’t see what the comments said.

The tweet - and the webpage linked to by the tweet, were probably just transcribed by a drone who didn't actually listen to the talk where the silliness was said - and the talk was by an assistant professor, a young female asian professor, like so many young women trying to be kind and inclusive and in the process letting her brain fall out. I think she should get a good talking to.

I hope the video has been removed - so embarrassing.

If you search machealthsci on Twitter (don't choose to go to their account) and click on latest, it will include a lot of the replies.