In this episode, we inform you of the legislative attacks on uterinekind that's currently happening in our country.
When the main people in power in this country see us as nothing but bleeders and birthers, it can be hard to not get political. There are so many pieces of legislation coming for those born as female. From banning the discussion of periods to banning our bodily autonomy, we’ve been under attack for years and it’s not slowing down. So if it’s not going away anytime soon, we need to get serious and speak up about these matters! We are so powerful and capable when us uterine kind work together so let’s do just that! Listen to this episode, learn what is really going on in our country that is working against us, and spread the knowledge to other uterine kind for our safety and our future!
Lastly, we end on a high note that includes a sneak peek of a future episode! We had an oopsies!
Thanks for listening, learning, and being you. And join us back here every Tuesday for all things uterus, in service to you, uterinekind.
Carol: We need a serious dose of unwinding the conditioning around periods in the female body. Females are more than bleeders and birthers and have a right to equal access to healthcare. I'm Carol Johnson, and this is Hello Uterus.
Typically we pause for a little uterus in the news at the start of every podcast, but this whole episode is news. And as it's women's history month, let's take a look at how far we've come. Spoiler alert, we're in reverse.
First, the Equal Rights Amendment, which is not published to the Constitution, so therefore, equal rights are not accessible for half of the population. Those born female just about little under two weeks ago. Senator John Kennedy joined Senator Cindy Hyde Smith, in introducing the Equal Rights Amendment resolution, Boy, isn't that an interesting title?
The Equal Rights Amendment Resolution, a better title for what they introduced is the Death of the Equal Rights Amendment Resolution. This resolution. Is to recognize that Congress does not have the authority to deem the e r a as a ratified amendment to the Constitution. We have talked about this on this show since the beginning.
And ever since that time we've been talking about the Equal Rights Amendment and how not having it published to the Constitution eliminates our, any infrastructure of equal rights for females. It doesn't exist. and why doesn't it exist? Because of decades of obstruction by those. In the Republican Party.
This isn't a political show, but we didn't make this political. The rights of females have been made political by the Republican Party, the party that Senator John Kennedy and Cindy Senator Cindy Hyde Smith belong to. So I just want to read to you a quote from,
Document that was released by these senator's offices about their resolution and, and about their goals. and they're very, very clear on what their goals are. and finally they have connected the dots that we have been connecting here on this show that without the equal Rights Amendment, we have no ability to demand the right to healthcare, the right to equal funding of research on the female body.
and then a multitude of other rights that we do not have without the Equal Rights Amendment being published to the Constitution. So here's what they say.
This is really kind of hard to read. It's gonna be hard to, to hard to sort of decipher this until we get to the end. But roll with me here on this. I. Radical lawmakers cannot erase women or their rights from our constitution. Leading with a Bang . This attempt is legally and morally wrong and would unleash a Pandora's box of harmful legal implications, nor can they replace a deadline that passed long ago.
This resolution makes clear what most of us already know. The deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment has long passed and was rightfully reject. Said Kennedy. The law and the facts outlined in this resolution are clear. Congress has no authority to go back in time to revive a failed constitutional amendment, which makes the current push to ratify the equal Rights Amendment wrong on its face.
Beyond the illegitimacy of trying to resurrect the era, r a, we cannot. Pay attention, the very serious effects. Adding the E r A to our Constitution today would have on abortion, religious liberty protections for women and more. As I've been saying, and that, by the way, was Senator Cindy Hyde Smith's comment, as I've been saying for years, the eras being obstructed because men in power and the women who support their patriarchal agenda do not want females to have equal rights, period.
There's nothing fancy about this or complicated in their quotes. They don't speak to. The fact that the vast majority of the country wants equal rights for both males and females. They speak in these quotes to the fact that the equal rights amendment will mean that we will actually have rights to equal access to healthcare and again, the myriad of other.
Inequalities that would be righted with the passage of the era r a and the publishing of it to the Constitution, the Equal Rights Amendment was voted on and it needed to be ratified by three quarters of the states. and there was a deadline applied to it. And from the moment that they did that, the goal was to obstruct until the deadline passed, and then they would have the opportunity to reject the e r a and to not publish it to the Constitution.
And why this is not a, number one. Number one issue talked about, both in terms of our politicians, legislators, but also just citizens, like anyone who's walking around who doesn't care about the Equal Rights Amendment and having it published to the Constitution is saying by their lack of, action or support for this initiative that.
Women and those born female are second class citizens. Kennedy mentions erasing women and you know, denying them the rights in the constitution. There are no rights in the constitution for, equality for females. that's why we created the Equal Rights Amendment. I mean, it's just like a whole lot of double speak and a, a whole lot of word salad that is designed to cover up the fact that they know that if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.
Females will have equal rights to access healthcare. That means that they will be able to access abortion as a constitutionally protected right. They will have equal rights to equal funding for health research for the female body, which right now stands at 1% of the 220 billion spent worldwide on health research.
Only 1%. Is spent on non-cancerous conditions that impact the female body, 1%, 1%. This is offensive. It's harmful. It holds back people for no other reason than the vast majority in power who are males. Do not believe that females deserve equal rights. , it's, it is remarkable to me that in 2023, this is where we are, but then I remind myself that it's 2023 according to the calendar.
But when it comes to how females are treated in the United States of America, the clock is rolled back and no one wants to progress beyond. You know, the 19, I mean, really an ideal, in an ideal world, as we saw with the repeal of Roe v Wade, it would go back to the 18 hundreds. No one's gonna take away
I, I hope, the right for females to vote in this country. So we're able to claw back a little bit of our, our history and the rights that we have achieved, the small number of rights that we've achieved. When you look at that, it is really shock. We have achieved the right to have a credit card, the right to buy a car or a house, the right to have a bank account in our name, the right to
I'm kind of stymied. I don't even really know what other, let's see the right to vote, the right to have a credit card, the right to have a bank account, the right to buy a house or a car. . That's pretty much it. We don't have the rights to equal pay. We don't have the rights to equal access to jobs. We don't have the rights to equal access to healthcare, the rights to equal access to funding for research.
We pay a pink tax on multiples of products. We pay more for health insurance. We pay more for healthcare. We make less.
And without the equal Rights Amendment, this is just going to continue. So awesome. We can be kind of a consumer, but we're gonna get punished by having to pay more for things or pay for a higher interest rate for something. There are so many inequalities. As a result of the obstruction of the Equal Rights Amendment
not having the Equal Rights Amendment published to the Constitution is gravely concerning to me and and to others, and it's something that we have to pay attention to and we need to be talking about it more. I've had conversations with people, and I've said this before on the show, who are educated and informed and on top of what's going on, and they believe that the e r A has been passed. Right? We passed the E R A. All of the states needed to ratify it. Ratified it. Well, it happened after the deadline, which shouldn't have been an issue. Congress then removed the deadline, and here we have now just a few days ago, senators saying, That the deadline matters more than equal rights matter.
They are telling us to our faces that females or second class citizens who are not deserving of equal rights protected by the Constitution. And that should inspire you to talk about this constantly and to take action. To call your representatives, to call representatives in other states. What's happening in Louisiana is affecting all of us around the country, and we need to take action.
We need to shut this down. The longer that it goes on, without us paying attention, the harder it becomes to change history. So if we want to protect. Women and those born female in the future, we have to right the wrongs of our past, which means getting the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and published to the Constitution.
Now, it it, if there was one thing that I could beg and plead for you to focus on it, is to get the Equal Rights Amendment published to the Constitution. When that is done, we have a foundation upon which to stand, to claw back the other rights that have been taken from us. After a quick break, we'll be back to say period, period, period.
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Not to make this a show that is all about politics, but as I said at the top, politics is up in our uterus hardcore right now, and to have an effective conversation around it, we're gonna have to talk politics. I don't know if you've heard about the don't say period law. One of many laws coming out of the state of Florida that are designed to minimize adolescents who are female, to control their bodies, to control access to the information they can get about their physiology.
and normal bodily functions like menstruating. But if you haven't, let's take a quick look at it. So sex ed, health and science classes that teach about things like H I V and AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases can only discuss human sexuality in grades six through 12. So, Other grades, no discussion at all about human sexuality or human health that is specific to reproduction.
Just a news flash to the people in Florida. Menstruation can begin as young as age nine, and you, you wanna know why that's happening? It's because of. The regulations that states like Florida roll back on industries like the petrochemical industry. As a result, the female body is exposed to an incredible toxic load of chemicals, which is altering our.
Reproductive cycles and causing us to ovulate earlier, which decreases our reproductive longevity and ultimately decreases our lifetime because those who enter into a reproductive cycle earlier, they begin menstruating earlier than is traditional, have also shown to not have as long of a lifes. The earlier that you go into menstruation, the earlier that you begin menstruating, that has an effect on when you enter menopause and the earlier that you enter menopause has an effect on your overall longevity.
So not discussing. menstruation in those grades is, is problematic, but it's problematic just from an educational perspective, right? Imagine you're in, in third grade and you go to the bathroom and you notice that you have blood in your underwear and. Maybe your parents have talked to you about menstruation, maybe they haven't, but you're at school and something needs to be done and now your teachers and the nurses, they can't talk to you about menstruation
it. It is such a terrifying concept to toss an adolescent into that kind of limbo and what they pick up on it is,
They experience shame because when adults don't want to talk about something or adults act uncomfortable around topics, kids internalize that as stress and shame and they think, oh, this must be bad, or this must be wrong, or I must be doing something. Or I should be afraid of what my body's doing, or what my body's doing is so wrong that people can't even tell me about it.
That's really just terrifying to think , that, that could be happening to children in addition to not discussing any kind of reproductive health until the sixth grade. even then when they are talking about it, it's, I, I don't even have a word for it. It is, archaic. It's not scientifically sound. It's not backed by science
in this. that don't say period Bill, they talk about the courses that can be taught and how they must be taught. Here's an excerpt. The courses must abide by the idea that biological males impregnate biological females by fertilizing the female egg with male sperm that the female then gest dates the offspring.
Under the law, these reproductive roles are binary, stable, and unchangeable. A statement that refuses to admit the existence of trans and non-binary people, as well as people who are not getting pregnant through intercourse, which is a lot of people.
Not every female is going to enter into a binary relationship. Not every female who wants to have a child, wants to be married to a male or in a partnership with a male. and to control that to, to essentially demand that in order for you to produce another human being, you must be in a relationship with a male.
And that male must impregnate you. I mean, , you know, everyone says Handmaid's Tale. I'm gonna confess. I cou. I couldn't, I couldn't watch it. It made me physically ill. I will try. To go through the experience of watching that because I understand how important it is, but I, I don't need to make a correlation to the Handmaid's Tale to just state the obvious, which is the damage that this bill will cause.
Is is going to, it's going to cost lives, and it demeans females, it diminishes their role in society. it squeezes them down to just birthers and bleeders. It's designed to keep them out of the workforce. It's designed to keep them in a state of ignorance around their. And what is okay to do to their body and who's in control of their body.
It eliminates bodily autonomy. It gives all the power to. Males in the way that this is being taught hands, all the power to males, and it doesn't fix, I mean, it creates a ton of problems, right? It doesn't fix anything. But while they're putting all this time, energy, money, and, and other resources into these ridiculous bills, they are ignoring everything else that's going on that is negatively impacting female.
Females deal with unwanted attention all their lives. Today, that unwanted attention is coming in the form of legislation designed to shame adolescents who menstruate and erase L G B T Q I A, people from society. This will disproportionately affect people who are under-resourced people of color, and people that live in any way outside.
Of this small group of individuals that are leading with religion and using religion to create legislation that disproportionately punishes erases and places in danger, those born female.
It's a horrifying bill and this should not be considered a silver lining because it's really hard to find silver linings. And trust me, I try because I don't wanna be a downer about all this, but we gotta be, we have to be frank and clear and you know, see today as it is. But the silver lining is that, you know, the kids will find the information they need, they'll find it, and there are groups of people who are working their butts off to produce accurate, medically accurate information and get it into the hands of kids and they need it.
And we will educate them and inform them and empower them, and they will demand it. Like you can force a female to give birth, but you're not gonna be able to stop. What I see is, is an evolution of humanity. The, the kids that I interact with today, including two of my own, they see right through this. And they will ultimately vote these people out and we will ultimately write the wrongs that are happening here, but the scars will live on and we will continue to be at a deficit with regard to research and understanding of the female body.
And that is a primary. Concern for me, something about which I am gravely concerned that there, there are a few storms brewing, we just talked about one giant one, the e r a, the rolling back of rights, the minimizing and dismissing of females, forcing them to give birth, withholding information about their health, all of that stuff, right?
And then on the other side, We have the repeal of regulations on an industry that is poisoning us. There are forever chemicals, pfas chemicals, and other chemicals that are in everything from toilet paper and tampons and menstrual pads to cereal, to orange juice, personal care products, makeup. carpet, paint, furniture, waterproof clothing, it's everywhere.
There are over 80,000 chemicals that are, are poured on this planet every day, and those chemicals are impacting the female body. and because we have no research. To hold up and shine a spotlight on the chemical companies can continue hiding behind the statement, generally regarded as safe. So these two storms are colliding and it's gonna become a big giant cyclone over all citizens born female.
And I just gotta say, I don't think, I don't think we're gonna stand. So while I might sound really concerned and I am really concerned, I am hopeful because I don't, believe that we will ultimately stand for it. I don't believe that somebody like Senator Kennedy is going to be able to have that much control over the female population.
All of this attention that we're getting is part of that that is all of this attention placed on females is, part of all of the unwanted attention that females don't want anymore. The wanted attention, the attention that they deserve and require in order to be healthy, physically and mentally.
It begins with respect because has anyone seen respect, hello, respect. Not at all. I, I'm, I can't, I can't think of a time actually where, uh, in my lifetime where females have been respected were not. And again, it goes back to the era r a, that right there just says, yeah, not respected. If females were respected, they would be provided the support they need to ensure wellness.
The same right. That males.
if females were respected, they wouldn't be shamed, they wouldn't be controlled or have their access to healthcare controlled. They wouldn't have the, the decisions around their health and wellbeing that, that ability to make those decisions taken from them as if they can't be trusted, as if they can't.
Work with their doctors to determine the proper care that they need. Some group of males needs to come in and take control because females are not respected and therefore not given the rights to be able to make their own decisions about their own body.
Respecting females begins with unwinding the conditioning that females exist to be impregnated. We got other stuff to do kids while this bill and the repeal of ROE and the push to get females out of the workforce and back in homes serving a male head of household while pregnant. Is an attempt to further cement that conditioning.
And while legislators focus on controlling females, restricting their access to health information and healthcare, they will fully ignore the impact their bills and laws are having on people trying to care for females with the repeal of Roe v. Wade OBGYNs are leaving states with abortion restric.
OBGYNs are leaving their careers because of non-clinicians forcing them to not provide healthcare to their female patients. OBGYN's Fear, they will be prosecuted for providing care to their patients. Administrative and legal burdens have increased in malpractice. Insurance is so expensive. South Florida's malpractice insurance premium can run as high as $225,000 a.
Maybe Ron DeSantis should focus on lowering the malpractice premiums and enabling physicians to provide proper healthcare to females so that OBGYNs don't have to spend almost a quarter of a million dollars a year to protect themselves.
OBGYNs ranked third in burnout among 29 medical specialties according to a 2022 med scape. And over half of all counties in the United States lack even a single obstetrician. These laws place females firmly in second class, citizen status and discourage investment in female health, Columbia University and the Journal of Adolescent Health, which have condemned the sort of education that is.
Legislated in, in Florida cite that their tactics, what they're looking to do in Florida, violate adolescent human rights, withhold medically accurate information, stigmatize or exclude. Many youth reinforce harmful gender stereotypes and undermine public health programs. It's pretty clear.
This has and will continue to cost people their lives
while abortion, which is healthcare, not some evil or casual disregard for human life has been in the headlines. One has to dig a bit deeper to unearth the cascade of consequences that we are just beginning to feel. And the physicians are the canaries in the coal mine. They will not practice in states that have restrictive abortion laws.
They can't have, they can't attend a residency in a state like Texas and be a board certified. OB, G Y n because in order to be a board certified ob, b g yn, you have to have medical training in abortion care because abortion care is healthcare. I'm so mad that the word abortion was hijacked by,
it's like a, uh, Strange hybrid of a, a, a political, religious organization that literally doesn't give a, you know, what about actual healthcare? Like, it's not, that's not even in the, they don't care. It's not part of the decision. The decision is being made because of the ability to secure votes.
And I, I saw this in my own family. Beloved mother raised Catholic, raised us all Catholic. She was a, she was smart and yet a single issue voter. And it wasn't until nearly the end of her life, nearing age 90 in a, in and around 2014 or so where I was able to have conversations with her where she started to see how.
single issue voting pattern that she had was actually sort of shrinking her own personal aperture on humanity. It was conditioning her to be essentially an evangelist for politics rather than. What I think she wanted to be seen as, which was an evangelist for unconditional love.
She was conditioned through her church and, again, you know, a person who, had access to education, who, had privilege, the ability to travel around the world and see how. Cultures lived and even within our own family with our siblings, marrying people from other religions and seeing how those religions operate.
She had all of that to work with, but she went to mass every day and was, was preached at
information. Was preached at with information that was designed to demean females and to to, to demonstrate that in the eyes of God, they are not equal. Oh, cut it out. Goodness. I'm so glad that she started to see a glimmer of hope, but she knows something. One of the things that I saw in her eyes. Was fear and it wasn't fear about what would happen outside of her.
It was fear from the realization that she might have been duped and what that would mean for her personally. That she would have to unravel this whole thing and face the fact that she had been duped to think that. That going and, and protesting outside of an abortion clinic was doing God's work that is absolute utter nonsense.
She was lied to
and they took a word abortion and they weaponized it, and we are all paying the price for that right now. And, and the price is gonna compound daily and it will grow.
Legislators who know nothing about female biology did not consider the impact because they don't care about the impact in their mind. Females are second class citizens and they will vote as the male head of household directs them to vote, and that is what is most important to them because they do not want to lose their precarious grip on power.
It's hard to sit with the attacks, but when you do, you land where we all need to be to get clear sight lines on what's at play, reducing females to birthers, who menstruate, reducing them to humans, whose primary responsibility is to give birth. That's a cult . That's not a government of the people by the people.
For the people, that is a freaking cult.
in a land where females exist only to give birth, where their ability to give birth is isolated as their primary reason for existence, and if they won't or can't do that successfully, they aren't deserving of equal rights and aren't worth the investment to innovate on their behalf. Who cares if they aren't giving birth, if they won't or can't do that successfully.
And if they won't serve a male head of household, they can just pipe down, be quiet, smile, smell pretty, or die. Those are the options. it makes it so easy,
when you think about it, while it is, is certainly about maintaining power and.
One, one really effective way to do that is to minimize the ability for females to have any power or control. It also makes life really easy for them. In their minds, they think, Hey, you know, if, we don't let the e r A get ratified to the Constitution, and if we keep females ignorant and pregnant, Then we don't have to worry about funding health research on the female body.
We don't have to deal with, God, they're just so emotional. Those females, they won't have any impact cuz they won't have any power.
So they'll just, you know, either die off. Or they'll accept the role that we've carved out for them in society, which is to produce offspring and serve a male head of household.
There are a million reasons to be absolutely furious and sickened by where we are today in 2023.
One issue is one that I think about every hour, every day, and that is innovation in female healthcare and that innovation will die along with females.
The risk will be too great. For companies to invest in research because they won't know if they'll have the right to bring a product to market because that product might violate some future law around female healthcare. The uncertainty over future legislation potentially banning medicines and procedures for females will, will just, it will just create far too much risk for companies.
They'll divert funds for research on better treatments for the myriad of conditions that impact. Only the female body to other areas of science that focus on the male body because there won't be that risk. It's the same thing. It's the same reason why we had to fight so hard and so long just to get research on the female body because.
Our body was perceived as risky for research that the fluctuating hormones created a noisy environment that wasn't worth studying, rather than a common sense approach from an engaged mind that would quickly identify the fact that those fluctuating hormones are very important to understand not to just dismiss them because it's too complic.
You know, you have two children. One one's a really easy child to sort of manage parental and one's a difficult child to manage parental if you just toss the difficult one out. I guess people like Senator Kennedy might
the don't say period law. And the United States offensively high infant and maternal mortality rate for this ridiculously wealthy nation. The fact that the E r A is still being obstructed and is not published to the constitution rape kits remaining untested by the thousands male rights prioritized over female.
Right.
It doesn't look like we've made a lot of progress. We fought for progress. We got progress, and that was taken away in the last few years and it's been proactively, the progress that we're trying to make has been proactively. Battered. It's been obstructed.
This is a very uncomfortable, dangerous, and dispiriting time that we are living in. But the old adage, it's darkest before the dawn is applicable here, speaking out, which we are doing more. And educating people on the ripple effects of restricting female healthcare, just the ripple effects alone from banning abortion in just certain states and that ripple effect that it's having on our country overall.
You, you can see how damaging this is. This is.
We need to call out politicians. I, I just can't, I can't even believe that we, that we have to be talking about this. We need to call out politicians for their creepy cult-like moves that are wildly out of step with science. And while I. Have seen and felt the power of shame, and so I have never wanted to bring that to another person's life.
We need to shame them the way they shame females.
And that's, that's, I think for me, everyone is different, right? There's so many ways to metabolize this and to make an impact. And I'm not suggesting that people have to be like me, it's more like find the way that you can make an impact that feels good for you and then do it and talk to your kids about everything, all of it, all the time.
D don't. That I have learned in being absolutely transparent with my kids is so healthy. We talk about everything, all of it, all the time. Difficult conversations. We talk about drugs, sex, gender, everything, all of it, all the time. and I tell them all the time, I will be fun. but I'm also here to, make sure that you get all of the education and information that you need in order to be a productive person in the environment that we are all living in right now, which is less than stellar.
I promise you we're gonna get to some good news in this podcast. but before we do, I just wanna reiterate that the entire female healthcare system is under extraordinary stress and the healthcare professionals who prop it up each day with dedication and personal sacrifice are. Extraordinarily stressed and it's having an impact on their physical and mental health.
We are looking at scarcity in terms of access to obstetricians and gynecologists, and we need to take action to ensure that those born female have access to care.
Females aren't props or property, and the moves that we've talked about in today's show, the repeal of ROE and all the bills designed to shame, erase, and subjugate females is all about keeping them as props and property. But there is some really interesting news coming out of Wyoming. and it's good news.
it again goes back to history, goes back to when Obamacare was first introduced to the United States as the Affordable Care Act and in many states, opponents of the Affordable Care Act took their talking points and turn them into state constitutional amendments, protecting patient's ability to obtain He.
That the government might not want them to have. Okay. Just . You could see where this is going. Right? I don't need to tell you it the, this is so beautiful. I love it. I love it when you know the snake eats itself. I think that might be your right analogy. I'm not even sure, but you know exactly what I'm talking about.
So. , they were like, oh, you're gonna force us to participate in this Affordable Care Act thing. okay, well then we're going to write legislation at the state level, and it's gonna say this, each competent adult should have the right, shall have the right to make his or her own healthcare decisions. Ah, bittersweet.
Right? Glad it's. And hoops busted, right? Busted. Oh, we don't, okay. We only want, people to have the right to make their own healthcare decisions if those people have a penis. That's basically what it boils down to. It's all about the control of females. It's gross, obscene, patriarchal, offensive.
And together we can turn the tables. We must, and we will. And that particular. legislation or, uh, I think it was, if it was, uh, yeah, it was a constitutional amendment at the state level in Wyoming. Made it so that the abortion restrictions in Wyoming were blocked because they have to address this now.
So there are, there are loops out there, out there that we can climb through, but I would love to see increased attention. and a spotlight placed on the obstruction of the Equal Rights Amendment, which has been going on for decades because it is the thing that prevents us from gaining traction. Without it, we have no foundational rights of equality, and we are seeing that.
They know it and they're counting on the era r a, to not be in the Constitution so that they can continue to roll back protections and rights for those born female. It's brutal, but we have to know. We have to know about it and we have to talk about it. And thank you for listening, and, and please talk.
With your friends and loved ones kids, anyone, and, uh, pay attention to this stuff and we will be right back with ending on a high note.
Oh, it's one of those ending on a high notes that has like a little touch of awe in it. We were fortunate to have an amazing time with. The lead researcher from Chiai Pharmaceuticals and an another individual that was on the research team that has published a recent paper about an incredibly exciting advancement in treatment for endometriosis, and we were so stoked to be able to bring that interview to you during March during endometriosis awareness month, and then a bomb cyclone.
and our recording was lost to the wins. And I'm sure that my personal sort of, uh, lack of recording technical capabilities as we tried to use a new method of recording in order to accomplish a couple things because. We had multiple people in Tokyo on the call, and then we had the bomb cyclone and it was just super hairy and low and behold, the recording is not usable.
I'm so sorry, but let me tell you, we had a blast and it is, I cannot wait to bring this interview to you. We will rerecord the interview and you're gonna love hearing what these re researchers have to say about the advancements that they've made. It is super exciting. Like super exciting. I will just, I'm going to like a little bit of, a spoiler alert.
This is not just a treatment for Endo, but. It could potentially treat adenomyosis. Adenomyosis is debilitating. The only treatment for it that is, definitively effective as a hysterectomy. It is underdiagnosed, undertreated. It's difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms are super, super debilitating. So the fact that like if you could have seen their faces, when I asked them about a myosis, they, both of them almost jumped outta their chairs.
They were like, So exciting and, and this is, this is why we need research and we need funding for research. So anyway, I apologize. It's on me that that recording didn't make it to editing. And we will rerecord it and get it to you in the interim. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Uterine Kind, where we are having some fantastic conversations on female health and we are building a supportive community of people who are informed and.
And we'll be back next week with another episode of Hello Uterus Pending Scheduling. It will be focused on this groundbreaking new treatment for endometriosis and possibly other conditions like adenomyosis coming out of Chiai Pharma Pharmaceuticals in Japan. We are so grateful for their efforts. and for their dedication to female health and research on the female body.
Thank you Angel, for producing this podcast. Thank you Maryelle for handling everything on social media for us and thank you team at Uterine Kind for creating this amazing app that puts the power of healthcare and information and personal data in the hands of people with the uterine kind. Until next week be well, be cool, be kind.