“I’m excluding myself but I’m going to throw a tantrum if you don’t change everything in order to include me!”

Signed, Every trans person ever

Edit. Reddit ran so many other forum type spaces off of the internet, it’s just sad. I’m hoping you can find a space that hasn’t drank the kool aid.

I can’t believe the worst part about endometriosis for these women is being “misgendered.”

I'm sorry they're doing this. It's totally understandable how sick you feel over it. This is deeply messed up and abusive. Shocking they are even coming for diseases now, diseases men don't even care to learn about or research or treat.

I was banned from the PCOS subreddit immediately and permanently for saying males can't have PCOS. I was banned from medical subreddit that I need for continuing education on a disease that has severely affected me all for pointing out fact.

The REASON the medical community at large doesn't give a shit about endometriosis is because it's a WOMEN'S DISEASE. These people are narcissists and all they are helping is the maintenance of their fragile worldview.

A word of comfort — online Reddit society is not “real” — you can build networks and small vetted communities in real life. They’re still open to male infiltration but much more controllable.

It is so awful.

Girls and women with endometriosis already have to deal with so much bullshit everyday. From health professionals dismissing us and refusing to help us, to regularly experiencing debilitating chronic pain that affects our daily lives, and now this...

We're kicked out of our online communities, the only places we can vent about how our incurable medical condition has ruined our lives. All because our language isn't "inclusive" enough of a small minority of people who believe everyone, including strangers, have to centre them when we talk about our lived experiences... and that we're bigots if we don't.

I bet if you used “guys” instead of “ladies” no one would have said anything. Infuriating. I left Reddit after the purge and don’t regret it. Misogynist hell site

From the second link: "I’m not trying to be hostile or a smart ass, but who someone else is, meaning how they identify, and that they have endo, doesn’t diminish your story or struggle." Goddamn, this line of argument grinds my gears. Yes, support groups are a place to vent about a shared condition, and health issues especially are intensely personal, but that doesn't mean women are objecting to this out of petty jealousy. Even if they were, they would be entitled to it because these demands are an example of erasing female-specific language from discussing female-specific conditions.

Also, "I prefer afab because that still includes people who have had hystos" what the FUCK is wrong with you

Fwiw personally I don't use "ladies" or "sisters" etc but that's just my personal distaste that's probably a holdover from wanting to be a cool girl.

Turd-flinging pathetic little lemmings

I don't know much about that illness but i feel like hanging out in such a toxic space is just going to damage your mental health. I would leave this group, now i know this is easier said than done because there is just no resource for women, but maybe this group here could work? Maybe there's some women only radfem aligned discord servers with health forums?

Either way, i don't think this toxic, male controlled space is good for you sis. It wouldn't be for me. But it SUCKS that males and some women destroy everything they can't understand.

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month as well. Of course they'd pull this BS right at the end.