gnarlyfem

I'm the one who created the private women's health subreddit. The reason it was created is because we didn't want to be shamed for using language that accurately describes our bodies and experiences. We were told to stop calling ourselves women, and were offered "uterus haver" or "f'd up ovary haver" as a way to be inclusive. Which if you understood women's health, plenty of women have to have these parts removed for life saving reasons. So then they're going to be asked to refer to themselves as havers of those now missing parts, or else be called transphobic? Forcing women to call ourselves by the body parts that give us so much pain and hinder our health, is dehumanizing. We don't hate that we're women, we just wanted a place to learn and commiserate with other women experiencing the same thing. That's it. No one is going into the prostate cancer sub and telling men to stop calling themselves "men", and instead refer to themselves as "f'd up prostate havers" or "cancer asses." It's not a difficult concept to understand why we feel the way we do.