I whole heatedly agree with your sentiments and the way you have expressed them. I too have suffered multiple miscarriages and also had an ectopic pregnancy (at age 33 coincidentally). Most recently with IVF, after losing my left fallopian tube, I have absolutely felt ignored by the system and callous doctors. Before a procedure to retrieve my eggs, I was in writhing pain. The doctor said I should just wait until the procedure scheduled for the following morning. Turns out I had ovulated prematurely, losing most of my eggs and bleeding internally. Poor clinical decision making by doctors who see us as walking ovaries and/or walking dollar signs. Reproductive medicine is prohibitively expensive and yet completely lacking in humanity and empathy for patients. The pain of women never was and never will be taken seriously.
"women and men who have been conned into believing they can alchemize themselves into the opposite sex using a magic spell of will-power, social collusion, and medical intervention"
What an accurate and concise way to describe the current-day situation. Thank you!
I am overjoyed that I found this blog! Your youtube channel is fantastic, and I hope you'll visit Ute Heggen YouTube channel and check out my short clips as well. I am a trans widow--ex husband claims he's "mom" as well and does every possible act to erase me--alienating our 2 grown sons with woke nonsense. I blog at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com and mostly present mindful movement on my yt channel. I also wrote & published a memoir, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022) which I can send to those who give me a mailing address in the contact form on my channel. You are very well-spoken. I hope you'll respond to the email I sent to your website. Here's a short, which explains it all in about 25 seconds:
I feel exactly the same way and yet really fear speaking out. I am a counselor of many years and I still fear the backlash in my small community. I am curious how you managed to gather your courage and write about these things under your actual identity. I admire that. I live north of seattle in a scarily woke town and I would definitely be cancelled ( aka lose my livelihood).
May I remind us all that all over the world, let us say for at least 10,000 years the daughters of Eve have had ovaries and, according to Genesis, were exiled from Paradise and living in fallen human nature.
So for 10,000 years there have been women, old and young, with ovarian torsions and ovarian cysts and ovarian cancer and tubal pregnancies and pregnancies with the placenta covering the only exit from the uterus and cancers of the vagina and the uterus as well as gross vaginal prolapse and incontinence of urine and or faeces due to perineal tears and nobody could fix them, so they died in agony or shame.
Then, men had the audacity to interfere in secret women's business and worked out the detailed anatomy of the human female pelvis and reproductive organs. In the UK look up Drs John and William Hunter.
So began the barbaric medical specialities of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with Caesarian section, forceps delivery and episiotomy at a time when only opium and gin were available to lessen the pain
Not perfect, but certain death of mother or baby or both began to be avoided for some by men of ever increasing experience and growing expertise.
Since then, men have discovered and perfected a variety of wonderful anaesthetics since ether and nitrous oxide gas; multiple accurate diagnostic tests and machines, blood transfusions and antiseptics and antibiotics and an amazing array of surgical instruments for all sorts of purposes.
Awe inspired, I learned all I know about O&G from the late Dr Margaret Mulvey (Lady Schlink OA) so don't think it is smart to say some of the progress was down to women!
Way before this, men invented circumcision but women invented female genital mutilation.
Sue the institution for false advertising, if they do not cater to women than their sign is wrong. Say you are offended and it should speak the truth. When they change it to UW People with Ovaries Health Centre their idiocy will be displayed full on for all to see. Of course they wont, they will simply rename it UW Health Centre. Then have every man in the area go there whenever they have a health problem. Eventually they can sue for false advertising when they are continually turned away. So they will have to put 'People With Ovaries Health Centre' on the sign after all and their twistedness will be on display for all to see and for them to contemplate every morning... Surprisingly they will probably find comfort in 'having corrected reality'. Eventually they will have to breakaway their 'civilisation' since reality will have no place for it anymore, despite having tried to accommodate and heal their illness for so long.
This is an amazing article!! Not just for the excellent content, but your style, your voice, very powerful!!
Oh, this is so very beautiful! What an excellent article. Thank you for writing this!
Amen, SISTER! Well spoken.
Wonderful Leslie, informative and humane.
I whole heatedly agree with your sentiments and the way you have expressed them. I too have suffered multiple miscarriages and also had an ectopic pregnancy (at age 33 coincidentally). Most recently with IVF, after losing my left fallopian tube, I have absolutely felt ignored by the system and callous doctors. Before a procedure to retrieve my eggs, I was in writhing pain. The doctor said I should just wait until the procedure scheduled for the following morning. Turns out I had ovulated prematurely, losing most of my eggs and bleeding internally. Poor clinical decision making by doctors who see us as walking ovaries and/or walking dollar signs. Reproductive medicine is prohibitively expensive and yet completely lacking in humanity and empathy for patients. The pain of women never was and never will be taken seriously.
"women and men who have been conned into believing they can alchemize themselves into the opposite sex using a magic spell of will-power, social collusion, and medical intervention"
What an accurate and concise way to describe the current-day situation. Thank you!
Such power!
Superbly dignified and graceful indignation. Reclaim the language from the ghouls.
I am overjoyed that I found this blog! Your youtube channel is fantastic, and I hope you'll visit Ute Heggen YouTube channel and check out my short clips as well. I am a trans widow--ex husband claims he's "mom" as well and does every possible act to erase me--alienating our 2 grown sons with woke nonsense. I blog at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com and mostly present mindful movement on my yt channel. I also wrote & published a memoir, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022) which I can send to those who give me a mailing address in the contact form on my channel. You are very well-spoken. I hope you'll respond to the email I sent to your website. Here's a short, which explains it all in about 25 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Sgl9Vl8_bk
I feel exactly the same way and yet really fear speaking out. I am a counselor of many years and I still fear the backlash in my small community. I am curious how you managed to gather your courage and write about these things under your actual identity. I admire that. I live north of seattle in a scarily woke town and I would definitely be cancelled ( aka lose my livelihood).
Not to make too fine a point of it, but really?
May I remind us all that all over the world, let us say for at least 10,000 years the daughters of Eve have had ovaries and, according to Genesis, were exiled from Paradise and living in fallen human nature.
So for 10,000 years there have been women, old and young, with ovarian torsions and ovarian cysts and ovarian cancer and tubal pregnancies and pregnancies with the placenta covering the only exit from the uterus and cancers of the vagina and the uterus as well as gross vaginal prolapse and incontinence of urine and or faeces due to perineal tears and nobody could fix them, so they died in agony or shame.
Then, men had the audacity to interfere in secret women's business and worked out the detailed anatomy of the human female pelvis and reproductive organs. In the UK look up Drs John and William Hunter.
So began the barbaric medical specialities of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with Caesarian section, forceps delivery and episiotomy at a time when only opium and gin were available to lessen the pain
Not perfect, but certain death of mother or baby or both began to be avoided for some by men of ever increasing experience and growing expertise.
Since then, men have discovered and perfected a variety of wonderful anaesthetics since ether and nitrous oxide gas; multiple accurate diagnostic tests and machines, blood transfusions and antiseptics and antibiotics and an amazing array of surgical instruments for all sorts of purposes.
Awe inspired, I learned all I know about O&G from the late Dr Margaret Mulvey (Lady Schlink OA) so don't think it is smart to say some of the progress was down to women!
Way before this, men invented circumcision but women invented female genital mutilation.
Sue the institution for false advertising, if they do not cater to women than their sign is wrong. Say you are offended and it should speak the truth. When they change it to UW People with Ovaries Health Centre their idiocy will be displayed full on for all to see. Of course they wont, they will simply rename it UW Health Centre. Then have every man in the area go there whenever they have a health problem. Eventually they can sue for false advertising when they are continually turned away. So they will have to put 'People With Ovaries Health Centre' on the sign after all and their twistedness will be on display for all to see and for them to contemplate every morning... Surprisingly they will probably find comfort in 'having corrected reality'. Eventually they will have to breakaway their 'civilisation' since reality will have no place for it anymore, despite having tried to accommodate and heal their illness for so long.