AUTHOR'S NOTE

Sex assigned at birth is not always consistent with gender identity. As such, this body of work is intended to be inclusive. Any use of terms related to ‘fem’, ‘female’, ‘girls’, ‘woman’, ‘women’ or ‘women’s health’ used herein i.e., in referential citations or colloquial text is intended only as a theoretical and historic framework. Such use is not intended to trivialize any and all lived experiences trying to access healthcare in a two-gendered system or the many intersections facing added discrimination, including but not limited to ethnicity, race, culture, size, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, and socioeconomic bias.

Endometriosis is a disease that faces institutional gaslighting, with society being led to believe it is “just a bad period” with the protocol being to “control” the period in order to “control” the disease and if that doesn’t work, to subsequently further gaslight the patient as psychosomatic. Within a twogendered society this disease has historically faced widespread misogyny through many tactics. The limited data is only based on bodies assigned female at birth, but endometriosis is not a menstrual disease - it is a disease that may have menstrual pain among its many symptoms, and for some, the disease may present at menstruation.

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