Health researchers have also, for ages, forgotten to include women in pain studies, in medication studies, and all other health studies in which these differences would be identified and recognized as being disabling.

Ppookleblinky.bsky.socialJun 14, 2024 9:07pm

Fun fact: estrogen-havers experience migraines at about twice to 4 times the rate of people not running on estrogen. Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who experience migraines, just like auto-immune disorders, and this explains why migraines are not considered a disability. SSDI does not list it

worse than forgotten - they've explicitly and intentionally not included them due to the "complexities" of women's hormones, and a bizarre assumption that a study on mostly/only men will provide data that's applicable to women. it's garbage, and it still goes on.