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Women are half the country.
Fund us like it.
May is Women's Health Month. This petition is part of Binto's commitment to advocating for every woman's body — at every age and stage of life.
Medicine was built without women in mind. We're changing that.
We spent our careers as women's health and fertility clinicians, sitting across from women who were sick, dismissed, and sent home with nothing. Women who waited seven years for an endometriosis diagnosis. Women who described textbook symptoms and were told it was anxiety. Women who were handed antidepressants instead of answers.
This isn't bad luck. It's a systemic failure, and it has a paper trail.
For decades, women were excluded from clinical trials to 'protect' potential pregnancies. The result? Dosing guidelines, treatment protocols, and diagnostic criteria built almost entirely on male bodies. We were treated as small men, or not treated at all.
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Suzie and Andi, Binto
Abby and Kristyn, Rescripted
Women are not a niche population. We are half the country. It's time the NIH funded us like it.