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“I think one of the reasons we don’t hear much about PMDD or give sufferers permission to seek help is because we don’t take women’s pain seriously. It’s just a natural burden we’re supposed to bear for being women. It’s been reported that there is a pain bias in the medical industry. It’s unclear if it’s due to a gender bias in medical staff, lack of research on women or differences between how men and women interpret and communicate pain.”

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“There’s also the assumption that once someone is on the pill there’s no further need to manage sexual health. How many times have you heard, ‘We didn’t use a condom because she was on the pill’? Too many to count. This stuff isn’t necessarily the pill’s fault though – it’s society’s. The culture we live in is non-consensual, sexist and full of double standards. But we’re changing that, right? We have to.”

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“There’s a model of understanding the disabled community uses that I think can also be applied to other situations, including this one. It’s called the Social Model of Disability, and it states that it is not a person’s condition that disables them, but rather society through inaccessibility and stigma. So it is not PCOS that makes someone less of a woman, it’s society’s definition of ‘woman’ that might make someone feel that way.”

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