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The medical community has a clear gender division on how they deal with sexual and reproductive wellness.
As theNew York Timesexplains, urology prioritizes sexual pleasure and orgasms for men.
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As a result, women’s total body health and wellness issues are under-researched and underfunded.
No one tells them they have a clitoris, and that’s where the shame starts."
Draping perpetuates the idea that there’s something that’s shameful about female anatomy that needs to be hidden.
But it’s not just the stigma about female sexuality that blocks research from happening.
The law also stated research needed to break down findings by demographic.
Dusenbery adds that the cost is as much physical as they are financial.
Dr. Blair Peters toldWebMDthat his work with transgender patients was another thing that inspired hisstudyon the clitoris.
But sexual pleasure, like with women, is one piece of a completely neglected puzzle.
For one transgender man, this ignorance almost cost him a kidney transplant.
This includes reminders and invitations togender-specific cancer screenings, like for prostate or cervical cancer in the United States.
Biological differences and hormone therapies also affect the way pharmaceuticals behave in the body.
When it comes to hormone therapies, however, the BBC reports there has been little research.
