This is worrying in the fight against misinformation.
A lot of women’s health problems are chronically under researched, leading to people going without the diagnosis and crucial treatments that they need for potentially debilitating conditions. This is really not helped by social stigmas and a lack of education around women’s health conditions and complications.
Health conditions like endometriosis which affects 1 in 10 women, PCOS, which has a global prevalence of 20%, adenomyosis which also affects 1 in 10 women, PMDD, which affects between 5-8% of women and vaginismus which is thought to affect 6% of women. These conditions can cause a range of difficult symptoms like chronic pain, heavy periods, fatigue, pain during sex, pain passing stools, depression, and infertility . These are all everyday experiences for millions of women around the world.It’s hard to see how we can improve women’s health conditions when we can’t even speak about them on the platforms that many of us rely on for communication, education, and community.
“The moment I saw creators having to type out words like s3ggs or s3x, I knew I was done trying to adhere to their standards. Not only does this stop people from gaining accurate and positive info, it also leads to educators no longer being motivated to provide it.” She added, “I consider myself lucky that I haven’t had my accounts shut down but I have experienced censorship in other ways such as content not appearing in hashtag searches/shadowbanning and having paid adverts rejected. I tried to promote my book once and it was rejected on the grounds of it not sitting right with Facebook’s politics policy whatever that means.
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