girlfreddy
Simply because of the complexity of it all. I mean it's never happened before so the DOJ and state justice dept's had to triple-check that each and every "i" was dotted and "t" was crossed. Never mind the millions of pages of evidence that had be collated, then backed up from other sources.
It is mind-boggling it's only been 3.5 years!
It also developed from scientists trying to keep things simple. Women's bodies are a lot more complicated than men's in terms of varying ratios of hormones, pregnancy, etc that have to be accounted for in studies. Same reason HeLa cells and genetically-identical mice are used.
It's still not a justifiable reason to neglect 50% of the population under the incorrect assumption that human physiology is the same across the board.
Same article from non-paywall source.
"Thanks to hundreds of years of treating the male body as the default in medicine, we simply do not know enough about how disease manifests in the female body."
This is big one. I'm a woman who's been misdiagnosed for the simplest of things. Twice I've blown my ACL, and both times it took 6-8 months to diagnose ... even tho the first time I pulled the ACL right off the bone. My rotator cuff took 20 yrs. All because women aren't supposed to hurt themselves at work.
I'm sick of the BS
@kadu @candio@lemmy.world
The only good thing to come out of comments like that is my block button gets used quickly.
@kttnpunk @MicroWave
Exactly. This whole gd screaming match over what constitutes being a woman has zero basis in science.
If the transphobes would just sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up, that'd be good.