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[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Often times people assigned female at birth are excluded from these kinds of medical trials because the female cycle can affect the measurements so much, which can distort the outcome. Still sucks but there's at least medical dispensation to discriminate.

Source: I was excluded from some paid medical test on some grounds and I had a conversation about reasons for exclusions with the people that were rejecting my application :-)

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, and then doctors and researchers go all surprised Pikachu face when it turns out that eg. some pain medication doesn't work as well on women, but naturally this conclusion is only arrived at after decades of insisting that they should work and that you're just being an irrational hysterical feeeeemale if you say they don't