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Justice for Men & Boys 
I happened to watch the British government’s ‘Women’s Health Strategy Statement’ from 16th April on BBC Parliament and it was crystal clear that the British government is also obsessed with so-called “medical misogyny”. Indeed, they seem to have used the apparent need to combat it as the basis for their “renewed” ‘Women’s Health Strategy’. It is transcribed on Hansard here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-04-16/debates/21F892BE-1073-4B6B-9ECC-904D61693EE1/Women%E2%80%99SHealthStrategy?highlight=medical%20misogyny#contribution-603E8B64-B2E3-4043-A614-3FB0667754F5
Labour minister Karin Smyth gave the statement and it includes some interesting policies:
Firstly, ‘Patient Power Payments’ which applies to Gynaecology services and Smyth describes it as follows: “Women will get a say on whether the NHS provider should get full payment for the services women receive, based on the quality of their experience. It means that if a woman is not happy with her experience, a portion of the tariff paid to that provider would be redirected to fund improvements in the same services instead. In other words, women will have the power to kick medical misogyny where it hurts: in the budget.”
Secondly, Smyth mentions a ‘Women’s Voices Partnership’: “All that will be underpinned by an NHS that finally listens with respect, dignity and compassion to the voices and choices of every woman and every girl, every time. That is not least with the creation of the women’s voices partnership, which is a new space for organisations representing women, giving them a direct line to Whitehall to inform national decision-making.“
Smyth also mentions the creation of a new “virtual hospital” – NHS Online and claims: “Women’s health pathways are being prioritised in NHS Online, and menopause and menstrual health services will be among the first to go live when it becomes operational this year. There will be a relentless focus on reducing women’s pain…”
Perhaps that session’s most far-fetched demonstration of Labour MP’s obsession with seeing misogyny everywhere was given by Chris Vince (MP for Harlow) who claimed to be “shocked” at how many of his female constituents got in touch with him: “about their terrible experiences being gaslit, ignored and disrespected…” when using NHS services and gave an example of one constituent who was incorrectly told she couldn’t be having a stroke because of her age. Vince seemingly gave this as his prime example not of ageism, or poor guidance for doctors, but of medical misogyny, immediately following up that example with: “What would the Minister say to women in my constituency who have long felt ignored, disrespected and gaslit because they are women.” I guess, unlike me, Vince has never been denied a PSA Test because of his age.
I also found it interesting that Smyth reveals that it was Baroness Merron who “has led this work on behalf of the government.” The same Baroness Merron behind the, morally, if somehow not legally, ageist ban on buying cigarettes and other tobacco products for those born after January 1st 2009. A policy engineered and enacted for the ‘good and safety’ of the younger generations, and dictated by those who do not apply the same safety standards to themselves and continue to enjoy the same free choices they have enjoyed all their lives, while limiting the choices of others based on their age alone, which seems to me to fit a Cambridge dictionary definition of tyranny which is as follows: “a situation in which someone or something controls how you are able to live, in an unfair way.”
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