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\u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale just doesn’t feel that far away.\u201d She adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you first start watching The Handmaid’s Tale, you’re like this is crazy, whereas now you’re like this could be the future.\u201d She chuckles in disbelief. \u201cI don’t know why I’m laughing because it’s terrifying, that is honestly the truth, it is really worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As our source revealed, one of women\u2019s biggest nightmares in healthcare is medical misogyny, and many sources now say debilitating conditions such as endometriosis can take up to ten years to get diagnosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGynecological conditions, particularly, are something which gets overlooked.\u201d Our source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere needs to be more education, people need greater understanding of women’s health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pay gap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
But this isn\u2019t where it ends. Women are stuck in the same roles, and the gender pay gap is as evident as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere’s still quite a lot of institutional things in the NHS which are causing the gender pay gap,\u201d She says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRoles that were predominantly held by women are still paid less, you see that in HR, and you can see that in senior leadership positions like managers, compared to senior nurses, because nurses were usually female. Responsibility is probably really about the same, but the pay is much different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The impact on the trans community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Recently, trans women have been at the forefront of public debate, and that debate continues to grow. Our source revealed how trans women not only experience the medical misogyny of womenhood, but also face discrimination for their gender, and too many people are sitting on the fence on the topic. She spoke on the new Supreme Court Ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt’s a worrying step back.\u201d She says. \u201cI fight daily, and that\u2019s not being political, being political.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am LGBTQ, I’m a bisexual woman, so I feel part of that community, and I’m genuinely worried about our trans colleagues I’m also I’m also worried about patients and relatives. It was a sad day because we already knew there was a barrier in them accessing health care.\u201d She added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Violence against women<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The hit TV series Adolescence sparked outcry on the current epidemic of violence against women, which is now ingrained in all parts of society, including the NHS. Our anonymous source is part of trying to find a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI’ve got a talk on active bystandership that is on the back of sexual safety work,\u201d She says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have the assistant director of Adolescence doing a talk on toxic misogyny, so that will be hard-hitting hitting but it\u2019s really important because adolescence has got a lot of people talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think that this could be this could be your family next door, where something really bad could happen to a woman, and nothing drastic happened in adolescence for us to get there, it was just these bits in society, and I think that’s a really important message.\u201d She added<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will it change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Our anonymous source actively stands up to challenge the barriers presented to women, expressing the frustration that there is still a long way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said, \u201cI’m putting on this seminar on gender equality, and I have got 50 people booked on which is great, but only three of them, and it’s really hard to get people to see that women can’t do this on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey need people around them, and the same with trans women.\u201d She added. \u201cTrans women need cis women to stand up for them, and that was something else for me. Would you be willing to stand up for somebody who isn’t like you? The answer is yes, I would. Yes, I will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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