Medical And Scientific Research And The Gender Gap (cis Based)e With Men

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Dr Stacy Sims speaks often about how standard medical advice for athletic training, and indeed simple fitness and diet, is based almost entirely on research done with men.
She is part of changing that. Here is her NZ TedX talk:


I became aware of the split between XY and XX physiology while learning about intermittent fasting.

What works for aging males works differently, and sometimes not at all, for aging women.
 

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I know, isn’t that amazing? Much of medical research is based in the male body. It’s like women just didn’t exist. Just throw some tits on on it and call it a day.

There’s a series on Netflix called “A User’s Guide to Cheating Death” that talks about this in one of the episodes. It even mentions how birth control pills were tested on men for side effects (if I recall correctly). Can’t trust a woman’s body to provide accurate data. We just aren’t trustworthy enough. Men are the template of everything health related. Tough to get anyone to study us.
 

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Oh, John Oliver is absolutely fantastic! hilariously funny yet so razor-sharp and inciteful...
His show deserves the awards it wins. Really well researched. And he’s so funny. What’s not to love?
 
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I have a muscle chart that is quite clear that it is a woman. Says so in big black font.
One client was offended, saying that I was bringing my feminism into the healing/work space.
This is within a couple blocks of Berkeley, Calif., mind, you.

I took a long breath, and said, some muscles take slightly different tracks on a woman’s body versus a man’s.
The charts, skeleton and cadaver were all male. That’s burned into my brain.
This chart is my cheat sheet.

He still complained to the chiropractor with whom I worked.
She simply said, “she can have any chart or reference she wants.”
 

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I know, isn’t that amazing? Much of medical research is based in the male body. It’s like women just didn’t exist. Just throw some tits on on it and call it a day.

Just throw some tits on it and call it a day. I love it!! That is now in my long-term memory bank.

Zoey Tur - Wikipedia Note the photo on the upper-right in front of Helinet's Astar helicopter.

At the risk of slightly hijacking a great topic, what about the latest craze de jure out on the left coast. Transgender women want to be medically considered as female. What category do they actually fit-in?

Many people don't know who Zoey-Bob Tur is, but a couple of decades ago he and his then-wife Marika made a name for themselves performing pseudo-manufactured rotorcraft feats of daring-do. With Bob manning the cyclic and collective and wifey-pooh Marika the TV cameras, they would fly around the LA basin shooting videos of Reginald Denny getting clonked on the head during the LA riots and Bambi the fawn deer endangered by a brush fire.

On June 17, 1994 Chopper Bob, his commercial rotorcraft license having been lifted by the FAA, was tooling around southern Orange County with Marika and pilot-in-command Lawrence Welk III when they spotted a Ford Bronco just south of the El Toro Y. Wow that looked just like O.J. Simpson's Bronco! For the next couple of hours the nation was enthralled by this big jeep crawling along the freeway with a convoy of police cruisers in-trail and Bob Tur-- along with an aerial armada of other TV helicopters and reporters above-- giving play-by-play.

Year later Bob decided that his feminine side was never truly expressed and made the decision to become Zoey. Subjectively he looks similar to when Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari put-on women's clothes for an '80s TV comedy called Bosom Buddies but I may not be a good judge of transgender beauty. However manure hit the fan when now Zoey Tur went on television with Dr. Drew Pinsky to defend Bruce becoming Caitlyn Jenner. During the initial panel discussion Zoey was serene and gentle, her higher-pitched voice echoing sweetness and femininity, until prodded by a tiny conservative named Ben Shapiro. Shapiro maintained the transgender fad was a progressive left-wing scam and Zoey Tur still had a unit as small as it may be. Moreover, every transgender female is actually a biological male.

At that moment Zoey morphed back into Bob, and from deep within his soul eons of hunter-gatherer Eye of the Tiger genetics bubbled-forth. She/he grasped Shapiro by the neck and growled "you cut that out now or you'll be going home in an ambulance!" At the conclusion of the video, transgender compassionate Dr. Drew Pinsky is heard pleading "hey guys, hey guys..."

 
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Did you not read CIS in the title?
Do you hijack simply because it’s a women’s issue?

Adding hormones is yet another medical hurdle, and if we can’t get to parity between XX and XY in research, how will we address the heath needs of trans people?