Are there any books that promote holistic natural reproductive health for adolescent girls and women? If not, you should write one (in your spare time…)! Personally, eating a whole food plant diet helped me with menstrual pain distress; I had spent 15 years on “the pill” due to fear of debilitating menstrual cramps. My daughter got on the menstrual suppression treadmill at a gender clinic at age 14. To her credit, my daughter’s family medicine nurse practitioner flagged continuous use of norethindrone for menstrual suppression years into this. I responded, “Well, you did refer her there, and this is what they prescribed.” I discovered TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR FERTILITY and finally learned about my menstrual cycles in 2003 and then gave birth to my daughter a year later at the age of 39. Thank you, Jamie, for being a beacon of advocacy and information to guide us as we stumble along needing a re-grounding in a wholesome way of life, beyond harmful pharmaceuticals as well as beyond milk maids and humans subsisting on baby cow growth fluid.
Thank you for bringing light to this issue. We have lost our way and no longer value the natural body.
"Transgender and gender-diverse individuals may benefit from menstrual suppression due to the association for some patients of gender dysphoria with menses. Practical considerations with menses in transgender and gender-diverse individuals include not only dysphoria with menses but also attitudes and safety concerns regarding public restroom use for menstrual hygiene."
Sometimes when I read this sort of thing, I lose hope for medical professionals and humanity. Everyone seems to think they should interfere with natural bodies and natural processes of the body.
"Transgender and gender-diverse individuals may benefit from menstrual suppression due to the association for some patients of gender dysphoria with menses. Practical considerations with menses in transgender and gender-diverse individuals include not only dysphoria with menses but also attitudes and safety concerns regarding public restroom use for menstrual hygiene."
By this point in human history, it is probably safe to say that billions of teen girls and young women have confronted menstruation without becoming alienated from their biological sex. Insanity rules in gender land.
Thanks this fascinating. Initatlly Depo was a mainstay of Planned Parenthood in Third World countries and mostly only to non-white women . The first to object to it was Mindon, Head of USAID in Bangladesh. in early 1980s
New Zealand was, at the time, the only first world country that used Depo on a first world population - although it was much more pushed onto Maori women as it was widely used by FPA here. As you say women hated it and were not warned of side effects many of which proooved permanant. I and Ruth Bonita objected to the New Zealand Study by UpJohn the then makers who paid the big leaders of Obs/Gyn/ to study it in New Zealand in order to get it on the American market. There was a good NZTV documentary on it by TVNZ One .We criticised the methodology of the study and the corporate sponsorship that the big professors did not knowledge. In 1980s Judith Ackroyd and I pointed out in Broadsheet, a New Zealand feminist magazine, how horrible especailly as much it was used on indigenous women in 1970s.This information on Depo was published again in a book I edited called Second Opinion by Oxford University Press in 1984 and in Sandra Harding's 'The Racial Economy of Science' in the USA published by Routledge.
It was hated then by women and their objections simply over-ruled by doctors and the then owners of Depo who I think were Monsanto. Once they had the NZ study on a 'first world' population it was introduced to much larger world markets.
so thanks for this information thatthis gahstly drug has found yet another ghastly market on unsuspecting women
Also, my sister joined the Peace Corps in 1989 in Africa to teach women about birth control. It was said to be so honorable, helping those poor women who had no control over getting pregnant (true), but actually were the US and big pharma just pushing birth control on vulnerable populations for other reasons other than for the best interests of those women?
Monsanto. Involved in birth control and also agriculture and seeds that do not regerminate? So that farmers/ populations have to go back and purchase more seeds every year…?? The same Monsanto?
Holy shit. Yes. My childrens’ pediatricians behaved like this. My daughter convinced me she needed bc to ‘help control severe cramps’. What did I know? I trusted the pediatrician. I am such a fool. And the whole -leave the rooms so we can ask questions and give the kids a mental health survey that makes them think about suicide and depression and literally asks them if they have friends thing- totally happened. Among other things. Shit. Shit. Shit.
Are there any books that promote holistic natural reproductive health for adolescent girls and women? If not, you should write one (in your spare time…)! Personally, eating a whole food plant diet helped me with menstrual pain distress; I had spent 15 years on “the pill” due to fear of debilitating menstrual cramps. My daughter got on the menstrual suppression treadmill at a gender clinic at age 14. To her credit, my daughter’s family medicine nurse practitioner flagged continuous use of norethindrone for menstrual suppression years into this. I responded, “Well, you did refer her there, and this is what they prescribed.” I discovered TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR FERTILITY and finally learned about my menstrual cycles in 2003 and then gave birth to my daughter a year later at the age of 39. Thank you, Jamie, for being a beacon of advocacy and information to guide us as we stumble along needing a re-grounding in a wholesome way of life, beyond harmful pharmaceuticals as well as beyond milk maids and humans subsisting on baby cow growth fluid.
Thank you for bringing light to this issue. We have lost our way and no longer value the natural body.
"Transgender and gender-diverse individuals may benefit from menstrual suppression due to the association for some patients of gender dysphoria with menses. Practical considerations with menses in transgender and gender-diverse individuals include not only dysphoria with menses but also attitudes and safety concerns regarding public restroom use for menstrual hygiene."
Sometimes when I read this sort of thing, I lose hope for medical professionals and humanity. Everyone seems to think they should interfere with natural bodies and natural processes of the body.
"Transgender and gender-diverse individuals may benefit from menstrual suppression due to the association for some patients of gender dysphoria with menses. Practical considerations with menses in transgender and gender-diverse individuals include not only dysphoria with menses but also attitudes and safety concerns regarding public restroom use for menstrual hygiene."
By this point in human history, it is probably safe to say that billions of teen girls and young women have confronted menstruation without becoming alienated from their biological sex. Insanity rules in gender land.
Thanks this fascinating. Initatlly Depo was a mainstay of Planned Parenthood in Third World countries and mostly only to non-white women . The first to object to it was Mindon, Head of USAID in Bangladesh. in early 1980s
New Zealand was, at the time, the only first world country that used Depo on a first world population - although it was much more pushed onto Maori women as it was widely used by FPA here. As you say women hated it and were not warned of side effects many of which proooved permanant. I and Ruth Bonita objected to the New Zealand Study by UpJohn the then makers who paid the big leaders of Obs/Gyn/ to study it in New Zealand in order to get it on the American market. There was a good NZTV documentary on it by TVNZ One .We criticised the methodology of the study and the corporate sponsorship that the big professors did not knowledge. In 1980s Judith Ackroyd and I pointed out in Broadsheet, a New Zealand feminist magazine, how horrible especailly as much it was used on indigenous women in 1970s.This information on Depo was published again in a book I edited called Second Opinion by Oxford University Press in 1984 and in Sandra Harding's 'The Racial Economy of Science' in the USA published by Routledge.
It was hated then by women and their objections simply over-ruled by doctors and the then owners of Depo who I think were Monsanto. Once they had the NZ study on a 'first world' population it was introduced to much larger world markets.
so thanks for this information thatthis gahstly drug has found yet another ghastly market on unsuspecting women
horrible literally anti women drug
Also, my sister joined the Peace Corps in 1989 in Africa to teach women about birth control. It was said to be so honorable, helping those poor women who had no control over getting pregnant (true), but actually were the US and big pharma just pushing birth control on vulnerable populations for other reasons other than for the best interests of those women?
Monsanto. Involved in birth control and also agriculture and seeds that do not regerminate? So that farmers/ populations have to go back and purchase more seeds every year…?? The same Monsanto?
There are multiple class action lawsuits due to brain tumors developed as a result of Depo-Provera use. Giving it to adolescents for self-reported gender mis-alignment issues is gross malpractice. https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/depo-provera-lawsuit/five-pilot-depo-provera-lawsuits-already-selected-for-early-trial-dates/
Let the lawsuits begin!
Holy shit. Yes. My childrens’ pediatricians behaved like this. My daughter convinced me she needed bc to ‘help control severe cramps’. What did I know? I trusted the pediatrician. I am such a fool. And the whole -leave the rooms so we can ask questions and give the kids a mental health survey that makes them think about suicide and depression and literally asks them if they have friends thing- totally happened. Among other things. Shit. Shit. Shit.
This is depressing but important and so well written. Thank you Jamie.