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She Rites's avatar

I am 62 and it may be simplistic thinking but it has served me well all my life; basically I looked to nature for my guidance. In terms of thinking about this rationally when I became pregnant at 20 I looked at things from the point of view of knowing I was born at home, with little fanfare and just the local Midwife. So I approached my pregnancy and birth with The unconscious messaging that birth is easy, and for me it was. Perhaps it’s luck but since I trained as a midwife, I have witnessed women overcome physical risks through sheer Will And belief and know that it is much more. so when I was approaching menopause in my 40s and basically all hell let loose, I went with it. I was gone 50 before my periods ceased for that magical year but all I did and this is a big all, was changed my lifestyle and live in a more healthy way. Now I look at of course the gender ideology movement and how that captures children before puberty and their parents not to mention the medical profession. If you look at all of this it points towards not trusting nature but adopting what I see more and more as the trans human, ideology and here at @JenniferBilek is a good place to go, but as you say Milli it is a case of follow the money. At every juncture of natural change in human physical life we are being directed to medicalisation whether it is puberty, pregnancy birth, menopause it all two drugs, dependence and lack of self belief let alone belief in nature and the millennia of success the human body has lived. I asked the question constantly why people are prepared to trust strangers and business and governments when our bodies give us information our friends and family give us information not necessarily in terms of mother daughter elders but what we observe and experience. And my observations and experience have shown me that we may not always like it but nature as a whole does things better than when we mess around. But the biggest thing that I see is how it is women and girls who are impacted with these ideologies negatively more than men simple as that and we have to ask ourselves why.

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Abi Moore's avatar

Thanks for writing this Mili. Have been feeling these things acutely lately As I’m on medication post breast cancer which was described by one of my consultants as like ‘having a second menopause’. (I’d already been through first starting aged 47). The side effects have been uncomfortable but getting any help with them has been impossible. I read Louise newsons paper (part of a paper) on women who are having post breast cancer support, oestrogen suppressing medication and felt from her that at least someone was talking about it. My GP referred me to the Menopause Clinic, an 8 month wait… but I’m sceptical that they’ll have anything to say that’s relevant to a woman on oestrogen suppressing medication that will be any different from what the consultants have said to me at Guys. Which is basically we do not recommend you have topical oestrogen and if you do you need to be aware of the risks, despite there being no research or evidence of what those risks are. It feels like a minefield and I’m paralysed by fear because of the way they talk about it.

Louise Newson seemed (seems) so positive in contrast, but because of the recent media I now feel afraid of that too.

So yes… confusion, lack of evidence, fear, disregard for women in this situation, or women at all… and months and months of waiting just to get an appointment. None of this is good. I’ve not watched panorama as I’m fearful of watching that too. 🙄

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