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Scientists have only just started to use actual women to test treatment on, instead of dismissing them as more complicated males.
Like a month ago they just debuted the first woman sized crash test dummy. Turns out, there were some issues they'd been ignoring.
So, until recently, do you honestly believe that they just didn't test female contraceptives? Or do you think they tested them on males instead? Or maybe that argument is a little bit nonsense in this case because while women as a whole are underrepresented in medical testing, the idea that they never, ever, tested on women (especially in the case of drugs exclusively made for women) is a little bit of a ridiculous concept.
Don't try to pretend that treatments specifically for women are not tested on females.
I'm not pretending anything. Women were rarely including in clinical trials up through the early 90s.
You're assuming I'm wrong because it's absurd. Yes, it was absurd.
You are correct that women were not included in clinical trials for general medications up until fairly recently, and this has arguably lead to slightly worse health outcomes for women. A very narrow group of young, healthy usually white men in their 20s have always been the primary labrats. Women were excluded not because they were forgotten, but because
Absurd? Maybe. Just maybe.
Where you're wrong is your assertion that treatments specifically for women were not tried on women. Progesterone birth control go through the same clinical trials as any other treatment, but let's not pretend that they tried them on a bunch of young men and declared them safe and effective for women.