On this episode of the GenderGP Podcast, Marianne and Helen are joined by Jodie and Krystle from Endometriosis South Coast. They talk about why endometriosis shouldn’t be treated as just ‘a women’s disease’, and how we can improve access to healthcare for trans people.

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 Links:You can find out more about Endometriosis South Coast on their website.

Freddy McConnell also joined us on the podcast to talk about accessing healthcare as a trans man.

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 The GenderGP PodcastEndometriosis doesn't just affect womenHello, this is Dr. Helen. Webberley welcome to our Gender GP podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman, herself and our head of therapies.

Helen:Hi everyone. Hi Marianne. Uh, we are here today with two guests, um, and I'm going to let them introduce themselves. So hello guests. Tell us all who, who you are. Why are you here? What's your interest? Why are you on a, a Gender GP podcast? What do you do? What would you like to know from us? And what, what would we like to know from you?

Jodi:Sure me to take that one, Crystal, go ahead. So I am Jodi. I am from endometriosis south coast. I founded the charity in November, 2019, and we support all people with endometriosis and adenomyosis, which endo'suz evil twin sister. And, and we want everybody to know who we are, what we do and how inclusive we are. We're doing a lot of research at the moment, mainly me doing a PhD and I'm looking at endometriosis care in different sample groups of people, gender being one of them. And it's really important. Get as many people as possible to like come and get involved in this survey because we want to change the care that people with endo get, cause it's not good enough for the average person that has endo. And it's definitely, definitely not good enough for trans people with endo. And this is where Crystal comes in because she's our trans advisor.

Crystal:Hi. Yes, I'm Crystal. Jodi asked me to come on board with the charity, just to look over everything that the charity were doing, all the resources we put out all the materials just to make sure it's really inclusive. The trans men that may be suffering with endometriosis and non-binary people with endo. So I've got a passion for this because my daughter is transgender. So it's really important that we do everything we possibly can to bring every voice, um, into the endo discussion and get people involved in the research and the support groups and yeah, make sure every voice is heard basically.

Helen:Brilliant. Well, thank you. And, and welcome to both of you. It sounds really interesting work. I love it. When a charity or an organization who's really passionate about something is also really passionate about something else. And then they stick together and say, let's make this doubly passionate and extend the reach. So I think it's really great work that you're doing and, uh, and welcome to to our podcast today. So there will be people out there who don't know what endometriosis is, adenomyosis, endo. And um, I'm gonna just call them both endo now as you two do.