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#perimenopause #menopause diversity isn’t a complication.
It is the detail you need before simplification.

#perimenopause #menopause inequity isn’t controversial.
It’s just under examined.
Which is worse.

Underserved communities aren’t “hard to reach” on #perimenopause #menopause. They’ve simply learned that the system rarely speaks to them, or listens when they respond.

The problem with #perimenopause #menopause education isn’t accuracy. It’s timing. Knowledge that arrives too late feels like diagnosis, not reassurance.

#perimenopause #menopause feels frightening when you’ve never seen yourself reflected in the story. Silence doesn’t neutralise biology, it distorts it.

You don’t improve #perimenopause #menopause care by piling on effort.
You improve it by shedding friction.

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Most anxiety around #perimenopause #menopause is not hormonal. It’s narrative deprivation. A lack of language creates fear where context would create calm.

If #perimenopause #menopause were taught earlier, fewer people would think their body was “breaking”, and more would recognise a system recalibrating.

#perimenopause #menopause doesn’t “suddenly happen”. What happens suddenly is the realisation, because no one planted the idea early enough

We say #perimenopause #menopause is “finally being talked about”.
But who is actually talking and who menopause is being sold to?

#perimenopause #menopause doesn’t need rescuing.
People navigating menopause need systems that aren’t built to exploit uncertainty.

#perimenopause #menopause is treated like a power cut. In reality, it is more like dimmer switch no one told you existed. Education isn’t information, it’s anticipation.

#perimenopause #menopause in underrepresented bodies is still under researched.
Menopause in affluent bodies is often over-sold.
This imbalance is not accidental.

#perimenopause #menopause isn’t one experience, yet it’s sold as a single solution.
Homogeneity is efficient for marketing, disastrous for inclusion.

#perimenopause #menopause should be valued as accumulated insight.
Instead, it’s been repackaged as a problem to monetise. Usually without diverse people in the room.

We obsess over youth because it’s predictable.
#perimenopause #menopause creates individuals who are not.
And systems hate anything they can’t nudge.

#perimenopause #menopause used to be under-treated.
Now it’s over-sold.
Both errors come from the same mistake.Confusing attention with understanding.

Calling #perimenopause #menopause a “decline” is like calling autumn a failure of summer.
It misunderstands what seasons are for.

The #perimenopause #menopause “industry” doesn’t profit from reassurance.
It profits from anxiety.
Which should tell us something about the incentives.

The Menopause Society Leading the Conversation logo and text reading "global perspectives on perimenopause".

Although #perimenopause is experienced by all women regardless of race or nationality, it is not always experienced similarly. A new study indicates inconsistency between perimenopause knowledge and actual symptoms experienced across diverse global populations.

More at tinyurl.com/ytujcrhh.

#perimenopause #menopause isn’t the end of usefulness.
It’s the end of people pleasing.
Which is only a problem if your economy relies on unpaid emotional labour.

We medicalise #perimenopause #menopause because we don’t know how to price wisdom, authority, and emotional accuracy.
Markets struggle with things that can’t be easily sold back to you.

Let’s stop designing #perimenopause #menopause journeys for the few and calling it universal.
If the next generation is to be ready, diversity must lead the design.

The #perimenopause #menopause “to do list” works brilliantly, for people who were always on the system’s radar.
Everyone else is labelled “difficult.”

#perimenopause #menopause advice often assumes we’re all baking the same cake.
We’re not.
Different ovens, different tools, different ingredients, yet one set of instructions.

We treat #perimenopause #menopause as a system failure.
It might be a system upgrade.
Less fertility, more pattern recognition.
Fewer hormones, sharper bullshit detection.

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Publication day for #Autistic #Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them' by Dr Rachel Moseley and Prof Julie Turner-Cobb, illustrated by me. Knowledge is empowering!
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Telling marginalised individuals to “advocate for themselves” in #perimenopause #menopause is like handing them a compass after removing the map.
Support should be built in, not bolted on.

What you pack for #perimenopause #menopause depends on where you’re starting from.
Access, belief, culture, and care all change the route, yet the advice rarely does.