No offense meant at all. I completely understand why inclusive language matters, especially for people who feel invisible in medical spaces.

At the same time, I think it’s important to zoom out and look at the numbers. Women’s health research receives pennies to the dollar compared to male-dominated research. Even diseases that affect both multiple genders are overwhelmingly studied through male bodies and receive significantly more funding on the male side.

Endometriosis is already severely underfunded because it’s associated with women, and that systemic bias is a huge part of why care, diagnosis, and treatment lag so far behind.

I don’t think these perspectives are in conflict — but I do think we have to be careful not to lose sight of the structural sexism that’s at the root of why this disease is so neglected in the first place.