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[LP]

None of which has any bearing on the handful of folks who would fail to match your exacting criteria for identifying as a female, and would according to you, be diverting funds from........what exactly ? Let me guess. "Real women" ? I'm really not sure why you or anyone else feels qualified to judge someone else's gender identity or sexual orientation. I guess social media has seen an unprecedented increase in the rise of the insta-expert.

Why would you conflate a request to avoid wasting taxpayer funds with some sort of gender prejudice.

Surely, for the purposes of a female health study, you are not asserting somebody is genuinely female just because they can label themselves as female, even if they have no womb and suffer no menopause?

On the flipside, as with the transgender in sport debate, how is this fair to females who suffer endometriosis or early onset menopause?

This isn't an equality, it's a waste of funds through deception.

If someone who isn't female but identifies as female, genuinely feel they are suffering endometriosis or early onset menopause, it's likely that condition is psychiatric not physical and they need mental health assistance not physiotherapy. I have full sympathy for them, but they shouldn't be wasting funds to research physical health issues.

This isn't a study into people who "Think they have endometriosis", maybe if the study included hypochondria it's valid!