Queer Menopause Project

Menopause support/education for LGBTQIA+ folks is almost non-existent. Let's work to change this!

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

• IG: queermenopause (more there than here)
• Article of the year https://t.co/97b1sIsgag
• Research https://t.co/GIQf4QLyu2
• Evidence to UK Parliament https://t.co/8rEJhEeRMG (MEW0087)
• QM in the Lancet https://t.co/97b1sIsgag
• Resources https://t.co/tEnYyWya5x

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

Good news - I have now updated the Queer Menopause resources page! There's been a lot happening in 2024.
Highlights in this post: https://t.co/y5SljitDMU #menopause #lgbtq #lgbtqia

[𝑫𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒇 @DrNighatArif]

Next time someone says “it’s just a bit of vaginal dryness”
Show them this ⤵️
It’s barbaric that we leave women with these symptoms when Topical Vaginal Oestrogen, used twice weekly is literally life saving

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

This is a really important thread.
(And if you are a cis woman in menopause you may wish to reflect on how this could eventually impact you too.)

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

Now this is a thread. And in my experience of groups, 10% of the people end up doing 90% of the work, and that is now the extraction/burnout pipeline is perpetuated. Choose your associates carefully and keep asking yourself the question 'Who and what is this for?'

[TransRescue @Trans_Rescue]

We're considerably more visible than we were 72 hours ago. A short thread on our work.

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

Focus group on trans and non-binary experiences of menopause! Please share in your networks. #menopause #lgbtq

[Dr Shema Tariq Legacy Account (on LinkedIn) @savoy__truffle]

Our team is developing the UK’s 1st national menopause education & support programme, with a focus on diversity. If you are trans, non-binary or gender diverse & (could be) affected by menopause please consider joining an online focus group. Message/email for info. Date tbc.

[Rose Matthews @NortherlyRose]

It was a joy to finally meet @tania_glyde in person after only having connected online previously.
I’ve learned such a lot from them about #QueerMenopause @MenopauseQueer
Do take a look at their website which contains links to lots of useful resources: https://t.co/dtnyeJJWAm
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[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

@NortherlyRose @tania_glyde Hi Rose, it was a joy to finally meet you too! :) And it a great to hear about the work you;re doing.

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

...which is the last thing we need. Lots of us haven't forgotten your terrible #ADHD programme which was so misleading and did so much harm. #Menopause 2/2

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

Wow, @BBCPanorama! What a wasted opportunity! You could have exposed the very real inequalities in #Menopause care but instead you offered a clumsy mess. Any any unexamined critique of hormone prescribing, as you well know, may be politicised and lead to restrictions... 1/2

[Dylan Raines @DylanRainesCO]

Incredible photo of the #BridgeFire in the mountains behind downtown Los Angeles.

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

@CoraCHarrington Absolutely stunning! 🤩

[Queer Menopause Project @MenopauseQueer]

@monaeltahawy Yes! The grief is immense. As is, in many ways, the relief. ❤️‍🔥

[Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy]

Today is Grief Awareness Day.

I wrote this about how I learned to talk to my grief during lockdown https://t.co/dypd9U3U1h

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Earths rotation viewed through a stabilized camera
Credit: aaronjenkin

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.

[Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) @HelenWebberley]

Today it was determined that the emergency ban on puberty blockers was lawful. 

It was also:
•Scandalous 
•Harmful
•Prejudiced
•Double standards 
•Discriminatory 
•Unkind
•Medically negligent 
•Wrong 

It is not for politicians to make decisions about clinical pathways. These decisions should always be made carefully, be based on the best evidence available, and be made by expert clinicians responsible for providing such healthcare.

[Jay Rayner @jayrayner1]

Great spot, this. @FeverTreeMixers and @Starbucks on the partnership banner for the Republican National Convention.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

As always, the media are clustering around #VichyNige like flies on sh1t. But the Green result is far more remarkable, as it happened without the massive publicity Reform was given.